21.1.21
– misére
– topoi
22.1.21
– Bing desktop app
– Focusing, defusing & savoring skills (From “The Happiness Trap”)
– Windows themes on Microsoft Store
– “Circumfession”
Impassioned by the impossible
colloquy
Anatheism
Negative capability
Committed openness
Post-secular age
Modern saints
Sublime/sacred/transcendent
The secularization of the sacred, and the sacralization of the secular
– Why not; What if
– Porn blog
Queering greatness/uniqueness/originality
23.1.21
– Hidden gems ~ unknown celebrities
25.1.21
– novum
abeyant
prosopopeia
pauperism
nonidentitarian
Impersonal power
Power other than mastery
interpellate
Virtual potential
Reading as empowerment
dithyramb
abjuration/foreswear
lumpenproletariat
New Sensations
madeleine
Power > productivity
acceptation
tallow
motley crew
particolored
Distinguish actuality & enactment
Impotence as potential
26.1.21
– You’re going down (even as you’re floating up), Joe! ;-(
Process/principles over results/goals – keep on keeping on……
It seems like just making New Year Resolutions properly, is almost as tough as keeping them consistently!
– The vast majority of people must be content with NOT being “great”! Heroes/champions/celebrities will always be rare/exceptional.
Maybe this is because of a powerful combination of genetic & environmental factors (without discounting personal responsibility)…
Is this just a lame excuse for my own mediocrity/resignation/apathy, or is it rather a realistic alternative for democratic development?
I don’t want to torture myself to death, nor bury myself alive!
I want to live until I die, and then some……
So, what’s the way forward for the common, ordinary folks?
– Maybe my bitter experience with work-overload (mission hospital) is the reason behind my fear of exertion/exhaustion…
How do I regain my capacity for pushing/stretching myself (optimally)?
– Evaluate and equalize:
Unconscious, ego & superego ~ indulgence, work & growth ~ relaxation, action & contemplation
Diagnose the exact imbalance that underlies your illness, and then strategize its correction.
Right now, I definitely/desperately need to decrease the first, and increase the second & third elements.
Neither sloth nor workaholic nor mystic!
– What are the major obstacles to my health/integrity (intensity + harmony + consistency)?
Severe confusion –> Intellectual scepticism – analysis-paralysis, hyper-criticism and contrary multiple perspectives
Weak will (through chronic sedentariness)
Morbid love of misery – masochism? – side-effect of (unbridled) hedonism?
– Selfish desires < social duties < Kingdom of GOD
The family code of conduct in the NT epistles is more relevant for those who are in the first stage.
E.g. New Corinthian converts
The radical call to leave all and follow Jesus is more relevant for those who are in the 2nd stage.
E.g. Contemporary nominal Christians
27.1.21
– by dint of
28.1.21
– dogpile
cannoli
switcheroo
Temporal malaise
Naturalized depression
Refusing the failure of the future
Strategic maladjustment
– I want to feel alive. I want to enjoy every moment I exist. I want to believe I am special/important/valuable/powerful.
But………. Living is just a conscious dying!
Should I just accept this? If so, then what?? How am I supposed to continue this?!
This condition is not even worth the name “suffering”.
Empty being
Futile persistence
Continuous absence
From matter-over-mind to mind-over-matter to ethereal soul to conscious matter to unconscious life
– wispy
wont
bugbear
Objectively uncanny
pixilated
29.1.21
– LP
– zohnerism
30.1.21
– highfalutin
– IJ & Saras ~ UG & JK
31.1.21
– electorate
1.2.21
– CH erotic delirium
– Immanuel Joseph is just my play date!😉
– Wouldn’t Nietzsche look more like Bonhoeffer, if he removed his mush?
Now, what does that question even mean! 😏
– Swiss Alps – both Nietzsche & UG had significant experiences there. Maybe I should visit the site too…
– Was the Buddha ever persecuted, like Socrates or Christ? Why (not)?
– Is the Cross actually the opposite of what it seems to be, in light of the final episode of “Succession” (season 2)?!
– Eva Cybulska
– I would’ve really enjoyed sharing my experience of the last episode (especially the last scene) of “Succession” (season 2), with mummy, just like I did with “Perry Mason”
– Check out the serial “Succession” 🔥
One of the best I’ve seen!
The last scene alone is worth watching the entire 2 seasons.
Deicide is the name of the game, and it sure ain’t for the weak or even the good – witness the birth of the Ubermensch 👹🤟🏽
4.2.21
– I feel dead inside. What options/responses/choices do I have?
1. Just be active – do stuff (chores, etc.) irrespective of how you feel – will-powered discipline
2. Try to feel better – find ways to be entertained/refreshed/energized – pampering
3. Mindfulness – stay in detached observation/neutral awareness of the “deadness” – contemplation
Use a judicious mix of all 3, depending on the particular situation/need!
6.2.21
– subvention
kinnow
7.2.21
– The pornodelic experience
Noli me tangere
9.2.21
– I cannot be understood, without including the experience of (chronic/mild) depression!
– immiseration
monopsonist
yen
vole
knell
– conduce
– glissando
– glasnost
11.2.21
– kibble
Clarence Jordan
13.2.21
– aeon
scrum
sub rosa
phenom
salutatorian
scrum
15.2.21
– FROM
Untainted conscience
TO
Untainted by conscience
– Destroy your life/self/world, then you will know……!
– Find YOUR evil
– Elevating laziness into an art-form
– Becoming reality
– Don’t just be a misfit, be a rebel.
– 15 minute snooze ad infinitum 😜
– Who am I really? How do I find out?
What do I create, if I had the complete freedom?
18.2.21
– Family time ~ 1/2 hour everyday.
Eating out
Or
Casual chat
Or
Devotion
Or
Playing game
Mobile usage NOT allowed ⚠️
22.2.21
– purloin
druthers
stalactite
24.2.21
– huckster
25.2.21
– Don’t take anything too seriously!
(except this dictum) 😜
– “Non-existence is the portal of God.” – Chuang Tzu
From the “existence of God” to the “God of existence”!
nihilization
26.2.21
– “Miguel Unamuno promotes a quixotic (because it lacks a rational foundation) ethics of nobility, heroism, and sainthood in ordinary life. Put in the form of an imperative, the maxim of quixotic ethics enjoins that you ought to act so as to make yourself irreplaceable.”
1.3.21
– destinerant
5.3.21
– “…who is so much taken with aporias and impasses, who thinks that you are really getting somewhere only when you are paralyzed and it is impossible to advance, only when there is no plannable, programmable way to proceed…” – Caputo on Derrida
– breakwater
6.3.21
– I distinguish 3 aspects/levels of reality:
Nature, culture & spirit
– Inner biographies/unconscious autobiography
Unamunian
Cardiac writers
Counter-Enlightenment
“Life is anti-reason”
Analysis Vs. Rhetoric
Strengthen/ennoble ~ upset/challenge
Passionate desperation
Action-guiding attitude
At least, intensify the boredom!
Will over knowledge
Virility as masculine virtue
Desire to believe/appetite for God
The genetic fallacy
The philosopher as a man/woman
Immortal somersault
conatus
Affective philosophy Vs. Scientific psychology
– What happens to passion (for GOD), after death (of GOD)?
– Could it be possible that UG was wrong about (life after) death?!
– Joe, would (your) immortality be the greatest curse or blessing??
– Why not have more female shrieks (like male grunts) in metal (music)?
7.3.21
– obstreperous
inanition
omnivalent
11.3.21
– Luck
Vs.
Fuck
– Ridhima Pathak
– pixy/pixilated
jinks
lucubration
lash
insuperable
14.3.21
– “GOD is a dancer”
– If you want more pleasure, then increase the pain
– What’s your next/new project?
Woulda, shoulda, coulda!
15.3.21
– Series:
Ozark
The Dealer (French)
– Movies:
Master (Tamil)
The Beginning (Georgian)
The Block Island Sound
16.3.21
– Hone and channel the emotions, by sandwiching them, between the will/body/action, intellect and context/structure/relationships!
– Speculative fiction
Racial spirit
pre-judgments
– Lev Shestov & anti-rational philosophy
19.3.21
– “Hi RC!
This is Immanuel Joseph… remember?
Just wanted to patch up with you after the rift ✋🏽
Can we attempt reconciliation?
Please let me know how you feel… 🙏🏾
PEACE ✌🏽”
– Truth might be stranger than fiction,
But fiction is more powerful than truth!
20.3.21
– My prudery is (my need for) respect!
– WORLDS
incesticide
surd
propaedeutic
ars moriendi
pronoia
paideusis
24.3.21
– sidle
prestidigitation
bathetic
– Ego death – U. G. Krishnamurti, Suzanne Segal & John Wren-Lewis
25.3.21
– mythopoesis
26.3.21
– Despair as a passion!
Negative dialectics
– From enlightenment/liberation to pessimism/suicide to agonism/passion!
27.3.21
– Spiritual leadership/guidance:
The process has (at least) 4 elements –
1. The divine/energy/spirit
2. The resource person/leader
3. The process/tool/method
4. The person/people/group
28.3.21
– Perfect nihilism/Negative dialectics:
NO to life/survival,
NO to death/suicide,
NO to salvation/enlightenment!
– Spiritual opioids, NSAIDS & steroids
– S&M joy
“hope-ING AGAINST Hope”
Curiosity/reflective living + critical thinking/negative dialectic + communication/dialogue = creativity/transformation!
– Joe, do you believe you are an amazing gift to this world?
Your suffering/sadness is only proportionate to your greatness/wisdom!
– Passion (active/passive):
Intense engagement ~ embracing pain
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