15.3.19
– My view of Christianity/salvation is orthodox, but I myself am unorthodox.
Unorthodox Christian(ity) is closer to non-Christian(ity) than Christianity.
I believe Christianity is more conservative than liberal. But my faith is more liberal than conservative.
I believe that only a disciple (submit to the authority of, and follow, Jesus Christ, as presented by the Bible & Church) can call him/herself a Christian. But I am not a disciple. although I believe I am still a heretic/radical Christian.
I believe Christianity says that only those who are converted can have assurance of salvation. But, according to me, one doesn’t have to be a Christian in order to be saved. In fact, I am a universalist!
Distinguish:
My view of Christianity
&
My view of life
&
Christianity’s view of life
All 3 are intertwined!
Solan believes that justification is only for converts (?), & sanctification is by faith (passive reception/dependence) alone, just like justification. He also subscribes to the justification-sanctification-glorification view.
I believe that everyone is already justified (& therefore, will be glorified) in Christ, sanctification also involves active commitment/discipline (unlike justification). And sanctification has nothing to do with salvation (eternal life – forgiveness of sins, reconciliation with God, ultimate Christlikeness, etc.) – it is living (present) in the light of (past) justification-glorification (future).
– One could be theologically liberal and morally conservative, or vice-versa
Or, one could be liberal or conservative in both…
– The reformer is more conservative than the progressive, because the former is trying to reclaim the original faith-practice which has been compromised in his/her context, and the latter is trying to innovate the future by using what has been given in the past as raw material.
I am (for more of) the latter.
– Long-distance relationships – a combination of the advantages of being single and being married?
How can the advantages of being single be incorporated into married life?
And how can the advantages of being married be included in the single life?
– Judging the scale that is used to classify entertainment into higher and lower forms
E.g. The inspiration of a romance movie and the titillation of pornography
Don’t both have their respective, rightful places in art/culture/life?
– Optimal proportion ~ 30/70 or 25/75
Extreme/moderate
Single/married
Indulge/discipline
Save/spend
– What do you do when an app you like to use is branded as PUP by your anti-malware program?
– Do you know how to type µ?
– Kabir, Sufi, Bhajans, Hindustani, Carnatic
Worship throwback
CCM (Contemporary Christian Music)
Quick preferences
Black spirituals
– Distinguish:
Pornstars
&
Sex slaves
Porn users
&
Sex addicts
Porn is the male fantasy about women, and rom-coms are the female fantasy about men.
The female fantasy is culturally accepted, even celebrated, but the male fantasy is condemned and repressed…!
– Pleasure < happiness < joy
Is it possible to have pleasure without pain?
Is it possible to have happiness without pleasure?
Is it possible to have joy without happiness?
– Distinguish:
Politics
&
Governance
– True love never dies – are you sure? – are there any exceptions?
This too shall pass – of course, isn’t change the only constant?
“Where there is love, there is life. Forget the risk and take the fall. If it’s meant to be, then it’s worth it all…”
16.3.19
– Trolls, pedophiles and terrorists
– Natural culture
Vs.
Artificial morality
– Demanding that a man be an angel is the sure way to make him a monster!
Distinguish:
Saint
&
Demon
– White supremacy
Vs.
Islamic extremism
Reverse jihad
You pay the bitter consequences of NOT acting against evil!
– Tony soprano – Immanuel Joseph
Christopher ~ Chris Joseph
Tony Blundetto ~ Augustine Sundar/Solan Chelliah
AJ ~ Mahima Joshua
Meadow ~ Praise Evangeline
– “We gods are only masks. Who wears us? Find it out.” – The Invisibles
– Dream:
My mother is sick, with ?generalized fungal infection of skin. She also might be having a heart attack. Seems like she’s dying!
I’m trying to wade through a river with my dad, and almost get drowned…… (Bad feeling)
– Recommendation algorithm
YouTube Kids
Form, substance & function
Is justified belief knowledge? The Gettier problem
IFF (if & only if)
Necessary & sufficient conditions
“Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgment” – Alan Gibbard
Meaning, language & morality
Munchaussen trilemma
Foundherentism
Intuitions ~ clues + Proofs ~ reasons
– Distinguish:
Apologetics
&
Evangelism
17.3.19
– Anirban Dasgupta
18.3.19
– Manohar Parrikar
Christopher Wiley
Social media & politics (elections, terrorism, etc.)
detente
Rogue nuclear power
Archipelago nation
Tiny but strategic
No-confidence motion
Improbable relationship
Scrapping term limits
Yellow jacket protest
Peak pollution
Single-use plastic
The volatility of celebrity
insouciant
– Gregory of Nyssa
Gregory of Naziansus
Gregory the Great
Patrick, the missionary saint
Patrick’s Day
shamrock
Sunday of Orthodoxy
Defeat of iconoclasm
Private conduct & public office
Emissions, plastics, deforestation
subvocalization
– Your rejection of the Messiah >> destructive consequences (of your own making/choice) ~ the divine judgment against you!
This message is brought by the prophet as a second chance (to repent & be forgiven), for those who had rejected GOD before.
At least now, will you heed & turn??
19.3.19
– poseur
Baader-Meinhof Gang
Chaos Magick
bogeyman
Mayan mythology, nanotechnology, Queer Theory
hotwire
20.3.19
– What would a promiscuous lifestyle be like?
Do you know?
I’ve never tried it……
– Alchemy: Shit <–> gold
Share your workflow
tt; ff
The pen as gun, & the gun as pen
Sanitization/domestication
Ontological squeamishness
abjected
Bodily excess
Queer/transgressive/fluid
Sweat, blood, pus, semen, mucous, milk, tears, vomit, diarrhea, saliva, urine, menses, oils, female ejaculate, amniotic fluid……
Wholeness/properness/abstraction/norm-ality
Recorporealize ontology, revivify politics and re-queer epistemology
Mummified in the chair position
Pleasurable rupture & ecstatic porousness
Fertilization instead of productivity
Excremental eros & vivid decomposition
“The female orgasm, which remains perniciously resistant to photorealistic forms of representation…”
Theorizing the lesbian body
Transubstantiation & pornography
“irrumatio”; throating
The gag reflex & retching – nausea & arousal
Visceral vocabulary
dank memes
clairvoyance
mesmerism
Psi
From spiritualism too parapsychology
Scientific magic and magical science
– Movies:
“Campaign 2” – Kazuhiro Soda
Documentary of radical observation
Watched only half, on Mubi
What is it like to be incinerated by a nuclear bomb?! Is it possible to experience it, without actually being destroyed??
Am I ready to vote for independent candidates?
– Why should the personal, philosophical and the pornographic be neatly/tightly separated?
NO!
– Becoming new/different – creating my (future) self, by repeating the same-old practices in the present……!
– Am I a psych(ot)ic?
22.3.19
– Online headshop
Water wheels
– 3 cardinal negative emotions:
1. Anger
2. Grief
3. Fear
Secondary emotions – confusion, frustration & disgust
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