Author: Immanuel Joseph

Immanuel Joseph (Male; Born - 11.08.1979, Madurai) What am I doing?? Actually, nothing much! But I am a self-employed, part-time, freelance spiritual worker. What that means exactly, I myself don't know...... I don't have a job. But I have vocation...... Christian, medical background. Lay, maverick, eccentric thinker & spiritual friend (Insightful Facilitator) - passionately seeking to better experience, understand & enjoy life! Reclusive & contemplative autodidact. Controversial conversationalist. Life-partner - Salome Divya. Living in Hulimavu, (Bengaluru, India). Email jimmanueljoseph@gmail.com Cell Phone/WhatsApp +919840227977

HAPPENINGS

22.2.19
– normies
Jacobin
Sun Tzu & Lao Tzu
Linux kernel
Data mining
Meme-making trolls
User-generated content
Online wars
Hive-mind/wisdom of the crowd
Culture industry
Kony 2012
Harambe killing
Virtue signalling
Slacktivism/clicktivism
jouissance
schadenfreude
lieu
Public (nervous) breakdown as viral entertainment
ironist
in-jokes
A response to a response to a response……
Fatphobia/transphobia/ablism
Fauxronic
Curated playlists – Filtr, Topsify, Pitchfork, Digster, Billboard, Loudwire, Particle Detector (on Spotify)
Editors’ Picks
pax
– Do you know the “real reason” behind Tumblr disallowing porn?
– Do celebrities “deserve” privacy?
– Distinguish:
Sarcasm (black humor)
&
Cynicism (nihilistic mockery)
– Distinguish:
Liberal
&
Radical
– Uncommon decency – Christian civility
23.2.19
– Thug life
– Happiness is not important. It’s enough if you’re not depressed.
Just focus on living more fully, rather than feeling good about yourself/at home in this world.
Distinguish:
Pleasure (physical) – “Fuck yeah!” 👍🏽
&
Happiness (emotional) – “So nice!” 👎🏽
Biospiritual (central/essential)
Vs.
Psychosocial (peripheral/negotiable)
Depression is nothing but the frustration/intolerance of boredom & disappointment…
24.2.19
– Wildness is absolutely integral to being human, just as ethics is!
– The dark side of the moon (Barbelith):
The insane/maladjusted,
The immoral/criminal
&
The demonic/occult
– Movies:
MOONLIGHT
Heartrendingly beautiful!
Do Black folks usually look this good?!
Developmental psychology – compare with Persepolis, Boyhood, etc.
Triple jeopardy (Black, poor & gay)
The Inner Child
Can love survive this world??
Defense mechanisms, reaction formations & distraction strategies
Ultimately, it’s a film about forgiveness
DEADLY SANCTUARY (1969)
I found this uncensored on YouTube!
Marquis de Sade’s Justine & Juliet
Somewhat like the book of Job – the happy ending is a honey trap!
Has the filmmaker altered the ending, to make the movie more palatable than the novel?
Compare with Dostoevsky’s Idiot
Moral ambiguity & arbitrary behavior – the inconsistency of evil
25.2.19
– Socrates on weed (I am!?)
– Hey! You read all the crazy shit, but you still remain a very sentimental conservative/conformist at the core…! 😜👊
– Is(n’t) by blog one of a kind?
You can find personal experiences, philosophy, Bible, porn references, film reviews, awesome images, original artwork, learn new words, current affairs, practical advice, etc. etc. – all in one place!
– Private science
The logic of perversity
Spluttering speech of a splenetic thinker
“There is a very great deal more where that came from…”
Economic apartheid
Reverse racism
Play hardball
Partisan news
Glamorous vice
Sadean Vs. Narcissist
#JPCON
crossfit
Unstable notions
Would-be (unsuccessful) narcissist
Aiming at evil
– Who is Stewart Home?
– Distinguish:
Fictional/rhetorical
&
Unreal/insignificant
– CJ – they want (you to be) an “obedient son-in-law” & loyal husband… but what are YOU going to do?!
I’ve been constantly admonished for living this way “even after marriage”……
– The only way to save the world is by living in such a way that makes no sense within (the epistemé of) your context!
– Distinguish:
Sadean ~ intellectual/pervert
&
sadist ~ academic/pretender
– There are 4 kinds of people:
Superficially boring and deeply interesting
Superficially interesting & deeply boring
Superficially boring & deeply boring
Superficially interesting & deeply interesting
Where do I fit in?
Which one (or two) is you?
– Bawitdaba!
Chatrapathi Shivaji Maharaj
Maratha pride
Guru Ravidas
Mystic-reformer, poet-saint, sage-guru
Liturgical colors
Fast-free weeks (Orthodox)
Sunday of the Prodigal Son
Polycarp of Smyrna
Judas & Matthias
Triodion
Cold Start Doctrine
Integrated Battle Groups
Nasr
Mutually assured destruction (MAD)
Nuclear deterrent
Sub-conventional war
Strike corps
Strategic surprise
Temple Monkeys (Tamil) – sit down comedy – TikTok Vs. Pornhub 😜
Knappily
chicory
YouTubers
Poison squad & preservatives
– In the past, eating in public was considered indecent. Now, posting sexually explicit images on your blog is considered offensive…
– GOD/Christ to man/church – “You be like me!”
Holy (Lev. 19:2),
Merciful (Luk. 6:36),
Perfect (Deut. 18:13; Matt. 5:48)
Aim for perfection. Never settle for mediocrity/compromise.
What does perfection mean?
It means developing an excellent character and unceasingly improving oneself (who one is and how one lives).
And maintain an attitude of generous acceptance toward all people, irrespective of their background or caliber.
These two qualities together make you complete.
This is what it means to be “like GOD” (or Christian)!
26.2.19
– OCR – optical character recognition
bedlam
Comte de Lautreamont
tumescent
Vile & sublime
jaundiced
Decadents & Surrealists
– “Hunger Strike” – Temple of the Dog
“Blessed are those who hunger & thirst after…,
for they shall be…”
Amen!
– How would our life together (marriage) be, if we stopped asking each other to “adjust”?!
Can two (or more) wild/free beings coexist for long??
  • daft, punk
  • bizzies
  • poof
  • dérive
  • addle
  • The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem
  • “We do not want a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation is bought by accepting the risk of dying of boredom.”
  • Commonplaces & everyday life
  • Technocratic faith
  • The will to refuse
  • Humane oppression; civil order; polite violence
  • Clowns trotting about on their hobbyhorses
  • darkie, gook
– Premarital counseling:
Introspection based on questionnaire (relevant issues – personality types, background/narrative, sex, money, family – parents & in-laws, beliefs/values, expectations, children, etc.)
+
Practicing communication (Sublimewe, etc.) + resources/material/references
+
Marital vows ritual (annual renewal) + godparents
Can you define (& refine!) “love”?
– Just because they provide all these “extra-curricular activities”, he thinks that this institution actually practices “holistic education” (preparation for life, not just employment)…
Ha ha ha ha! 😂
27.2.19
– Adultify ~ pervert
Vertical video (on a horizontal screen)
– PAK
Tories & Whigs
grift
shenanigans
underhand
3.3.19
– fabulate
Matheme Vs. Patheme
Bergsonian
4.3.19
– “Healing a girl’s broken heart through her ass!”
– assertoric
torpidity
Sunday of the Last Judgment
Maha Shivaratri
Kumbh Mela
Shrovetide

STUFF

22.1.19
– moozadell
Self-imposed slavery
Fruitful catastrophe
Deities ~ demons ~ spirits ~ forces ~ elements
Dreams ~ myths ~ art ~ religion
Collective fantasies
Unconscious knowledges
The body as representational platform
God only knows why!
Mystery ~ imagination ~ belief ~ ritual – in between chaos/unknown and order/known
Social/historical philosophy
Common law and the body politic
Leadership principles ~ divine attributes
Panic >> freeze >> fight or flee response
chattel
Pimps & pushers
looker
Boooyah!
photojournalist
asepticism
Swan song
– Noam Chomsky ~ Jordan Peterson
Vs.
Michel Foucault ~ Slavoj Zizek
– The person as a legion/horde!
Being a stranger to oneself
– Distinguish:
Illiterate
&
Stupid
– How long can one die?!
– Can a fundamentalist be an intellectual, and vice-versa?
– “Learning/growth = theory + experience + practice.
In the case of your career – doing a course in Education (theory) + teaching/guiding (experience) + research in Education (practice)” >> Chellam
23.1.19
– Body-memory
– Negative identity
Distinguish void & nothingness
Good & bad dualism
The uncounted or non-representable – all that is not!
Meontology
The other being & the other-than-being
Null set
Pure proper name
Univocity, equivocity & unicity
Auto-declaration; self-reference
Almost-being & be-coming
The Deleuzian virtual & Badiouian void
Grounding process
Infinities
ouns
gunrest
untonsured
prelate
jowl
imbroglio
downbeat
funk
25.1.19
– Sensory deprivation as entheogen
Sun-glare in ODI during India tour of NZ
Tor browser
– Movies:
“Pity” (Greek)
I can watch stuff like this only on Mubi! No need for attending international film festivals anymore 😎
Happy only when miserable!
Am I like that??
But why is he like that? Can this quest actually help him to improve his life/self/world?
Is the ending a fantasy, or……?
Is it okay to be abnormal? To what extent should we just accept without trying to change things?
Wouldn’t it be even more pathetic to be full of self-pity and no one else to share it with?
“Upgrade”
Found it in the top 50 movies of 2018 – a Mubi editors’ list!
Guilty pleasure/cheap thrill 😜
A mashup of Venom & Ex Machina – better than the former but not as good as the latter
Compare with “Pity”! Was that one also a revenge film??
How is justice different from revenge? And what does a victim do when the law fails to deliver?
Yes! VR/dream/afterlife is less painful than actual life. But, does it mean that it’s also “better”? Just try to permanently live in the altered state, then you will see the hell within that too!
26.1.19
– I read one chapter from James Joyce’s Ulysses and it was excruciatingly boring, so I just moved on to another novel!
(Maybe I was also depressed during that read, and looking for a quick fix……?)
– sub-personalities
The noble aim
Canonical motivations and emotions
Phenomenology and cosmology
Abstraction ~ idealization ~ projection
Consciousness ~ awareness + intelligence + articulation
Being ~ reality; Experience ~ existence
Co-creators
– Would the Big Bang count as a Badiouian event?
30.1.19
– Dead rubber
1.2.19
– Try Linux!?
4.2.19
– The Christian as pastor as confessor
Baptism ~ anointing ~ ordination
– Animal culture – jealousy, competition, hierarchy, etc. are NOT exclusive to humans!
It seems that, contrary to our intuition, these facts are NOT dependent on anthropic self-consciousness……
– linkify
5.2.19
– Movies:
“Original Sin”
WOW! One of my favorites?
Jolie looks perfect for the part! She is the forbidden fruit and the sinister serpent in-one.
Banderas can act as a hapless & blind fool too!
Compare with Dostoevsky’s “Idiot” – the Christ figure
The glory and folly of love
Can love be separated from lust/desire & need/obsession?
Self-forgetfulness can be as destructive as self-absorption
Gender role-reversals – awesome!
“Widows”
Compare with “Original Sin” – intimacy, betrayal & redemption – this one is more subversive!
Never mistake feminine vulnerability for weakness! I have seen firsthand the tenacity of the female spirit (E.g. Chellam)
In the end, she (wife/mother) was stronger than him (husband/father) – she never gave up on “them”.
The ambient grief along with the audacious action was gripping indeed!
The male is more individualistic and the female is more relational. Therefore, when it comes to things like marital fidelity, she is unbeatable. The male is more of a solo survivor.
Friendship, in the midst of adultery, political corruption and racial violence
Female bonding – the company of God-forsaken humans form a community of mutual support, in the aftermath of the death of the Messiah!
– Today, I let a stranger, alleging to be a poor, needy man into the house. And bought the suit fabric he was selling.
I later discovered that I had spent double the price of what I got.
He could have even threatened & robbed us (my mother-in-law was also present)!
Although I keep talking/thinking about how I have become egoistic and nihilistic, I still remain a sympathetic idiot! 😖
Why??
Is there still a remnant of the old Christian ethic of “entertaining angels” in me?
Is it okay to get cheated when you want to help the other??
– Compare:
Interpretation of ancient myths
&
Dream analysis
What is the episteme of such contemporary endeavors?
How is that related to the “original context” of these 2 areas?
– Proper verse
Meme fest
Younger twin
6.2.19
– There is a place/level at which physics & metaphysics start merging!
– Distinguish:
Rhythm day (Saturdays)
&
Random day (Tuesdays)
Rhythm – flexible discipline
Random – moderated entertainment
7.2.19
– YouTube Red
#letsdoeit
9.2.19
– Tension ~ conflict
Balance ~ harmony
15.2.19
– Put a sock in it
bough
16.2.19
– “When God set forth to create the universe, his Thought encompassed all the worlds at once.…All were created in a single instant.”
– Zohar
Could this be compared to the quantum multiverse coming out of the Big Bang?!
The eternal moment
True creation is bringing something out of nothing – a timeless/spiritual/divine act – of which you & me are also capable!
It is indeed amazing that the insights of religious mystics is a kind of meta/ultra-science……
– farrier
Conservation status
Subfossil cave specimen
Fossilization
Pay-per-view (PPV) event of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
headwind
Toxic masculinity
Face-mask for bowlers?!
17.2.19
– bae
18.2.19
– Scribd snapshots
– Movies:
Bumblebee
Watched it in 4DX @ PVR (no IMAX or 3D) – one of my worst movie experiences!
The Transformer as the heroine’s fantasy.
Throwing herself into a mission that is larger than oneself (“saving the world”) rescues her out of the rut of grief & resentment……
மௌன ராகம்
Valentine’s Day movie with Chellam – couldn’t get a good HD copy to download.
Deserves to be a classic!
Can be melodramatic & sentimental, but still authentic & gripping.
The tension between being true to oneself and preserving relational integrity
Truth-speaking + forgiveness = peace
Manchester by the Sea
OMG! One of the most poignant & pungent films I’ve seen…
Tragedy as therapy for depression!
I can identify with the hero’s self-loathing & rage.
The conversation between him & the ex-wife towards the end is heart-breaking & beautiful!
Sometimes, responding to the outstretched hand of another troubled sheep beside you is the only thing that can help heal your own wounds……
– The Duke University chapel website is accessible via mobile data pack, but not through broadband/WiFi.
How come?! 🤪
– Vasant Panchami
Sunday of Zaccheus
Hieromartyr Charalambus
tangerine
Sunday of the Publican & the Pharisee
Preparing for Lent
Eastern Catholic
Trisagion (thrice holy)
Confessor
– India Vs. Pakistan
Distinguish country & government
20.2.19
– Law, Prophets & Psalms ~ Theory, practice & experience
All integrated into epic (poetic narrative)!
– The Ego & Its Own ~ The Individual & Its Property ~ The Unique & Its Self-creation
– Track-album-artist ~ day-stage-person
21.2.19
– JSTOR Daily
– Movies:
Compliance
OMG!!! Grueling, infuriating and prophetic……
Who is Craig Zobel?
I don’t think I’m an exception to any of the victimized characters
It’s very easy to say, “Why didn’t you just say No!?” & “How stupid and gullible can you be?!” when watching this from outside!
Compare such deadly pranks/scams with (so-called) harmless stuff like “candid camera”, “just for laughs”, etc.
Persons reduced to cogs-in-the-machine – required watching especially for those who are part of huge organizations (like Christ University).
A nightmare that could well be part of a Situationist propaganda
“The banality of evil”?
“I just (try to) do my job” “I’ll do whatever is required (of me)”

RANDOM

12.1.19
– Why should I apologize for not being hospitable when no one is apologizing for not being contemplative??
– amicus
eponymous
Kosher; Halal
– Is “Gully Boy” just a rip-off from “8 Mile”?
13.1.19
– Movies:
“Ugly” (Hindi)
Adult preoccupation & negligence –> death of the child (“We could’ve saved her……!”)
Worldly concerns/desires –> loss of spiritual potential/vitality
Can we be both lustful and loving??
Awareness film – the pandemic of missing/abducted/trafficked children in India!
Why??
14.1.19
– Get sermon/liturgy/mass (video/audio) for every special day in the Christian calendar (for Year A, B & C)
– Ancient Christians as eye-witnesses of the Word, servants of the Kingdom and friends/lovers of GOD
Disruptions, detours and delays in the process of discernment
– marquee
– The Transfiguration account in Mark’s Gospel makes up for the absence of the virgin birth account as an evidence of Jesus’s divinity…
15.1.19
– Makara Sankranti – Hinduism & agriculture
– Haven’t you died before?
– Distinguish:
Having a child
&
Becoming a father
– The Sunday in between Christmas & New Year/Epiphany
17.1.19
– Income tax – financial year (FY) and assessment year (AY)
– TV series:
“Sharp Objects”
Very slow burn
Somewhere in between “Patrick Melrose” & “True Detective”, but not as good as either, because it tries to be a little of both.
The gorgeous women (& girls) make it watchable
Is it possible to non-judgmentally portray something pathological, and yet avoid condoning or glorifying it??
Feminine seriosity
Prestige programs
– What is that one thing you love to do, which motivates you to get out of bed every morning?
– superannuation
sadhvi
Amicus curiae
Angel tax exemption
Vinesh Phogat
19.1.19
– State of nature >> social contract >> artistic freedom!
Science as pseudo-religion and philosophy as pseudo-art
Liberation through torture
The transgressive imagination and criminal scheming
mastiff
atavism
Moral crimes and natural evils
The reader as victim
Perverse reason; anti-logic
Normalization ~ disambiguation
Official violence < personal cruelty
Subversive ~ ungrammatical
buggery
bestiality
– Books:
“Persepolis” – Marjane Satrapi
Classic graphic novel
1: The Story of a Childhood
2: The Story of a Return
WOW! Got into the mind-heart of a girl
East meets West coming-of-age
Europe is not paradise, neither is Iran hell
A depressed, stoned, mediocre nihilist……….
Suggested it to Chellam as reading assignment for her Developmental Psychology course
Unless you intentionally & deeply link your personal life to the larger context, you will be stunted!
– Horse-trading in the legislature – fucking buffoons!
– Seasonal festivals & national holidays
20.1.19
– Books:
“Open Marriage”
Read with Chellam
The infinitely expanding circle
Vs.
The fixed fence
I would recommend it to all couples (married/dating)
Still remains relevant, irrespective of your cultural background
Not a Bible/manual, but an essential stimulation/perspective
Movies:
“Room With a View”
Compare with “Room in Rome” 😉
Who is E. M. Forster?
Seeing love through the lens of sex, and vice versa
Ego – heroine; Superego – mother/aunt; Id – hero
Did Chellam’s parents ask, “What is this new voice/force we are seeing in you?!”?
“Martyrs”
OMG!!!
Compare with early Christian witnesses
Compare with the film “Jean d’Arc”
There are 2 kinds of horror films – the cheap jump scares and the deeply disturbing – this belongs to the latter!
Child abuse, homosexuality in friendship, and organized/religious/dogmatic groups
The philosophy of the Marquis de Sade – would the cult qualify as Sadean heroes? Why not?
Distinguish:
Victims
&
Martytrs
Can extreme pleasure also be revelatory??
Now I know why this is knows by some as one of the greatest horror films of the 21st century……
revanchism
“Glass”
Great idea and message, but the execution could have been much better
Not one of Night Shyamalan’s best
He’s better with thriller-drama than action
Supernatural is just a euphemism for very abnormal!
3 different classifications of humans:
Good & evil (Dunn); Broken & spoilt (Crumb); Gifted & ordinary (Glass)
The little people, who need to be at the top of a corporate ladder in order to feel big, hate the true giants among us.
I guess I am more like Glass – watched it with an injured foot 😉
I must become more & more discerning, assertive and expressive of who I uniquely am! More extreme, more unique, more powerful!
The disclaimer at the beginning/end of movies, about it being fictional, and any resemblance to real life persons/events being unintentional/coincidental, may not be appropriate for such works, which take comics this seriously (a la Jordan Peterson)……
– mantelpiece
asinine
zoetrope
amenity
“The Paris Review” interviews
21.1.19
– Introit, antiphon & gradual
Virgin ~ martyr
Suggested/recommended content
Emotional bullying
Attention bias
Social threat cues
Intrusive thoughts
Loneliness & addiction
Naturopathy
Oishii – Delicious Moment
Cultural competence
Diversity initiatives
Alternative & complementary approaches
Medicine, psychology & spirituality
Hermetic tradition
Modern magic
Imaginal techniques
Phenomenology of the sacred
Self-regulation
Promotive & preventive measures