Month: November 2019

17.11.19

– j’accuse
Cinematic space-time
Mani Kaul

– Movies:
“आषाढ़ का एक दिन”
Compare with Hess’s Siddhartha

18.11.19

– sleet
stalactite
Transitional gropings & abortive beginnings
Telegraph poles
counterscarps
eglantine, sweetbrier
reliquary
Melancholy splendor
husband (v.)
periwinkle
alkaloid
mimosa
convolvulus
caravanseer
zebus
dewlap
amphora
debouche
Bastioned turrets
Non-commissioned officer

– The politics & economics of the animal kingdom!

– Even if Jesus’s resurrection was proven to be an empirical fact, its meaning & import would still be an article of faith!

– Courage the cowardly dog
Samurai Jack
confessor
Nativity Fast

– The highway to hell ~ cut off from GOD ~ Lying, hating your neighbor

– “Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live before him.” – Luke 20:38 (NET)

19.11.19

– Occupy, Anonymous, etc. – are we living in a fascist dystopia?

– bootlegging
Gangster ethics
The Red Scare
Lovecraftian
Stream-of-consciousness & glossolalia

20.11.19

– By creating my own routine to live in, I have become just like everybody else out there, in one system or another…!
What would it be like, to listen to the body, instead of always swinging between pushing it (social performance) and indulging it (mind-fuck). The body does NOT want to lead, it just wants to be heard & respected.
I must somehow break out of this vicious cycle, even if it risks total breakdown……!

– I’m dealing with the We & Us, in the Me!

– Yes, I know gotta be strong to take life as it is. But I also gotta be smart to make the most of it too. Right?

22.11.19

– Movies:
“Philophobia: The Fear of Falling in Love”
Comedy-horror!

– aperçu

– Movies:
“In Fabric”
WOW! The writing on the wall has a peculiar sound too 😜

– Day-night test match
Pink ball cricket
Real(i)ty

23.11.19

– Ayodhya temple dispute – how far back in history do you need to go, to arrive at the conclusion about the “original inhabitants/owners” of the land??
I think we should look at who was worshipping there after the period when empire-building kings invading & conquering other realms (E.g. Moghuls) was believed to be a legitimate thing.
This question is also relevant to the Israel-Palestine & India-Kashmir issue.

– assay
venality
Institutional debasement
mandamus

– Ghazals, bhajans, Dohe, Ragas

25.11.19

– The unconscious mind ~ the natural/physiological/animal world ~ the primitive

– Movies:
“Ready or Not”
“Salaam Bombay!”

– Ease of Living index for cities

– Distinguish:
Scratch/water resistant
&
Scratch/water proof

– bylaws

– “The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, … to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why….” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.11.19

– Karan Thapar; The Wire
Idols as juristic persons

18.10.19

– Rip Van Winkle
Spurious correlations
Causal inference
Sharecropping contracts

19.10.19

– Montaigne & I would’ve been great friends! 😎

– Outrageously ranting tragedies
Daredevil & scapegrace
Fictional histories
Professional fool
simper
bodice
Love-cause
The moral of a comedy
Inspired folly
denouement

– My learning:
1. Experience & reflection
2. Reading/watching/listening
3. Conversations with others

– The sage is closer to a madman than to the normal folk!

20.10.19

– Compare the movie Brightburn with the gospel/story of Jesus Christ
Compare with Joker also.

– Distinguish:
Incompetent professionals
&
Professional incompetents 😂 (Feyerabend)

– 2 Corinthians – how did the apostle Paul deal with “ad hominem attacks”?
Abel et al.

– Reductio ad absurdum
The big business of research-teaching
Fan obedience

– Distinguish:
Argument
&
Rhetoric

21.10.19
– “I tell you, he will give them justice speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
Luke 18:8 (NET)

22.10.19

– Robert Capon claims that what he underwent is “actual death”, just like U. G. Krishnamurti went through… right?!

– The pre-apprehension of being
The supernatural existential
Transcendental experience
Self-reflection, self-exteriorization, self-othering
The procrustean bed of an a priori philosophy
Transcendental anthropology
Natural theology & Church dogmatics
First principles & deposit of faith
From Liberal (thought) to Liberation (struggles)
Ecclesiastical politics, spiritual caliber & theological achievement
cachet
The conditions of the possibility of knowing & willing
Rahner & Balthasar
Post-Kantian
Semi-Pelagianism
Anonymous Christians
The transcendental, the categorical & the historical

– Metaphysical cognition
The pre-critical Kant
Basic structure of experience ~ the very form of a possible object ~ conditions of possibility
Sensibility + understanding = experience
Intuitions & concepts
Synthetic a priori knowledge
Logic & metaphysics
apperception
Self-consciousness and unified world-perception

23.10.19

– “How blissful the destitute, abject in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of the heavens.”
Compare with:
“But, for those who are craven and faithless and abominable and murderers and the whorish and sorcerers and idolaters and all the liars, their part is in the marsh burning with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
&
“Or do you not know that the unjust will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Do not be led astray.”
(DBH translation)

– Half flush
Languid & Lagubrious part IV
piffle
Prime editing – genetic surgery
Knowledge architecture

25.10.19

– Movies:
“The Handmaiden”
“Water Drops on Burning Rocks”
“விசாரணை”

– Sex (liberated eros) seems to be the last frontier. Even those who have overcome religiosity, can use recreational drugs, etc., seem to stumble here……

– World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings

– Register for voluntary blood donation (response to need):
http://www.friends2support.org/index.aspx
http://www.bloodconnect.org/
http://bloodhelpers.com/
http://www.indianblooddonors.com/
http://www.listofdonors.com/

26.10.19

– aerie
pillage
Review-bombing

28.10.19

– Intimacy
Vs.
Clarity

– Those who get it right, know that it’s NOT about getting it right!

– turncoat

29.10.19

– Some people feel comfortable with this world, they are usually well-adjusted. When business as usual is just fine, one doesn’t have the need to explore the radical.
Some people feel uncomfortable with life, they usually become trouble-makers.
When everyday living is boring or empty, something extraordinary/abnormal is required to make it all worth it……
I think I belong (more) to the latter.
When these 2 groups/persons/types are put together, then expect some pretty intense (ugly) developments! 🙃
The challenge is to try & understand, empathize & accept the alien……
The world culture (the universal context) affirms the psychosocial and tries to bring the biospiritual in line with the status quo.
These 2 forces/spirits/ethoses are actually found in everyone, but one of them usually predominates the other in each individual.

– Movies:
Jallikattu (Malayalam)

1.11.19

– Natalie Knight – Feet sex is not cheating, right?!

2.11.19

– Simchat Torah
deaconess
Naraka Chaturdashi
Gospel justice
Raksha Bandhan & Bhai Dooj
World Thrift (savings) Day

– Movies:
“Nothing Really Happens”

4.11.19

– Meditation
Vs.
Medication

– Experi-metal

– “The harshest burns from the roast of…” – Comedy Central
Distinguish:
Freedom of expression
&
Emotional incontinence

– sobriquet

– Movies:
Vertigo

6.11.19

– I’m so angry that finding classic (national award-winning) Tamil films online is so difficult – almost impossible – even if one is willing to pay!
E.g. பசி (1979) & ஊருக்கு நூறு பேர் (2001)

– रोमाचं
RCEP
jibe

8.11.19

– Movies:
“Us”
The American Dream – capitalism (mindless consumption, etc.) as the (false) solution to social injustice (racism, etc.)

“The Zen Diaries of Gerry Shandling”
I still think he should’ve remained a writer!
Is it possible to be healthy AND successful?

10.11.19

– memoji, animoji

11.11.19

– Home-invasion movie
Double-bill

12.11.19

– Jesus’s current presence & activity makes as much tangible difference to us, as his earthly ministry made to the entire world then!
Jesus saves the world, NOT through his preaching & miracles, but by his Cross (passion, death & resurrection).

13.11.19

– The post-ideological desert

14.11.19

– Movies:
“A Good Woman is Hard to Find”