Author: Immanuel Joseph

12.9.17

– Why was I not born in a war zone like Yemen, or born with disability/in poverty, or born as a female in Egypt (genital mutilation)?

Sometimes, such thoughts paralyze me……! 😔

I don’t want to be like the common people who are naïve & blissful.

I also don’t want to be utterly destroyed by my abyssal (abysmal?!) lifestyle.

Where is the way forward then?

– 2Cor. 10:5

Non-philosophy:

Christ ~ Man-in-person

Arguments/presumptions ~ philosophies/theologies

– Univocal ~ unequivocal

Abjure ~ forswear

Robust ~ racy

– “This is the sum of duty (dharma): do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you.”

— Mahabharata (Anusasana Parva, Section 113, Verse 8)

A useful paraphrase of the Golden Rule (Bible).

Every ethical principle should have a flipside to it, to make it complete.

Do not do unto others whatever you do for yourself. Or, do unto others only some of the things that you do for yourself.

E.g. Chastisement

– What is the only alternative to suicide?

It’s NOT the usual blind life-affirmation!

It is self-transformation.

– Wittgenstein documentary

https://youtu.be/8BoKjQfMihs

13.9.17

– Harvey, Irma & Matthew

Farmer loan waivers, a cruel joke!

Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

– canon & codices

Christianities & Bibles

Greek Jewish Christians

Burgeoning scholarly methods

Apocrypha ~ deuterocanonical. Hidden ~ contested revelations

Ecclesiastical/theological disputes and sovereign/political power

Leadership & popularity – authority & acceptability – accuracy & appropriateness

Proto-orthodoxy – Bart Ehrman

Councils & creeds

Anonymous/pseudonymous texts

What would it be like, to be made king, because your father was murdered?

Greece Vs. Persia

Athens Vs. Macedonia

Diadochi

Military politics

Helenization

Cultural imperialism

polises

paideia

Gumnasium – the naked place

ephebe

city-state

Sports & war

demos – voting body

Citizens & warriors

Excluding aliens, slaves & women

boule

– I’m going to be 40, and I’ve still not figured out (my) life! 😟

– What do I do, when I feel like shit?

Lie down (awake) for 15 minutes

Mindful meditation for 15 minutes

Take a walk for 15 minutes

1 minute on-the-spot jogging with deep breathing

Journaling for 15 minutes

Music for 15 minutes

Physical intimacy with Chellam for 15 minutes

– non-recuperable

Signature -paradigm – statement

– Is celibacy/chastity a sexual perversion?

– The age of the giant (great individual) has passed!

Why? Should we lament it?

– Skipping – do it on the terrace, instead of inside the hall!

– The Self, as stranger/victim/witness

Reflection

Vs.

Shadow

– Courageous suicide

&

Cowardly lives

– Attend church worship service at least once a month, Joe.

Okay?

(You know why)

– How are mysticism & Marxism related??

– Father ~ pure being/potential/materiality

Son ~ pure thought/speech/intellect

Spirit ~ pure will/action/heart

What comes out of the full expression & interaction of these 3 is the GOD experience/emotion (or Life/Mind)!

– Westworld – the philosophy of indifference!

The blurring of the distinction between human & android – who is original & which is duplicate? Who is free & which is slave?

– Check WhatsApp status updates – Ishvar Mohan, Salome Divya, Amos Swaminathan, Vijayalaya Srinivas, etc.

– “You are sexy!”

Is that a compliment or an insult?

– Even suffering is impermanent!

– Spirit-TED – the next SFG!

15 minutes presentation by one person, on any intersection of theory, experience & practice.

15 minutes discussion.

15 minutes break.

Followed by another cycle of 45 minutes.

Total meeting time – 1 & 1/2 hours

14.9.17

– “Despite all my rage,

I’m still just a rat in a cage!” – Smashing Pumpkins

15.9.17

– Monkish

AND

Monkeyish

– Education, entertainment, enlightenment, inspiration, edification

– s(t)imulation

fuck (n.)

Spiral dynamics

Repersonalize

– Speculation ~ imagination ~ mystical intellection

– I can start a spiritual fellowship (small groups) in which full awareness & free expression of the body (emotions, sexuality, etc.) is encouraged.

– Professor – the correct order of your loyalties is:

1. The ideal of education

2. The welfare of students, faculty & other staff

3. The institution/system

– At this age, & after getting married, aren’t you ashamed to still be masturbating to pornography, ogling at teens & going online for hookups??

Why should she?!

– Suffering > pain

What makes injustice or death “evil”?

The story of the Fall, or the doctrine of Original Sin, is NOT meant to give a causative explanation for the problem of evil.

– merism

sufferer

– The doubts & complaints of exiled Israel

In another world……….

– What do essential insights and flights of fancy have in common?

Ultimately, they are identical!

– O, the untold damage caused by foolishness…

Maybe far greater than that caused by malice!

16.9.17

– Keep ~ observe ~ obey

17.9.17

– Movies:

“History of Violence”

Hmmm… life is all about, discovering the truth, about sex & violence!

Compare Tom’s history with the violent roots of America as a nation.

The family is okay with Tom as long as he is able to keep Joey safely locked up in the past. All they want, is not the truth of origin/nature, etc. (about him or themselves), but to be left undisturbed (by the hidden demons) in their ignorant bliss……

Evil is not just out there or in them, but it is always in here, among us!

– सुलभ

सॆवा दिवस

Toilet – a Love Story

– Sathyam Shivam Sundaram

http://osho.firstscreensaver.com/remository/osho-books-talks/t4.-satyam-shivam-sundram.html

– “What do you want?”

“To say what you won’t. To do what you can’t.”

– hobgoblin

gobsmacked

gob

imp

sprite

cosplay

motherless

– “Nothing is true.

Everything is permitted.

We fight in the darkness to serve the light” – Assassin’s Creed

– No peace without order,

No order without control,

No control without violence,

So, no peace without violence??

– Breathable, anti-bacterial memory foam

Screenshots from TV

Sweat bullets

– Photographer Jonas Bendiksen documented men who believe they are second coming of Christ

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-pacific-41282442/photographer-jonas-bendiksen-documented-men-who-believe-they-are-second-coming-of-christ

– Isms & Schisms

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ismsandschisms

18.9.17

– Do you (know how to) feel??

Savage indulgence

Vs.

Mindful sensuality

How does one remain sexy/lusty without becoming vain or abusive?

– Bigoted demagogue

anamnesis

amanuensis

madeleine

pulchritude

punctilious

saturnine ~ sardonic

– In remembrance of a great contemporary female thinker:

https://qz.com/725370/emerita-quito-the-greatest-forgotten-filipino-philosopher-has-died/

Quartz is a great news source! Check it out.

– Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

James 1:12 NET

http://bible.com/107/jas.1.12.NET

To love GOD is to fight complacency, despair & bitterness, and never give up on (living one’s) life (to the fullest). To keep believing that there is great reward in this attitude……

Check out the NET notes for “God”!

– “Patience is the root and guardian of all the virtues.”

— Pope Gregory the Great

Amen!

O how impatient I am to be(come) patient……

Patience ~ presence ~ mindfulness ~ awareness ~ consciousness

From entertainment to recreation, through meditation!

– How could terrorists & victims be confused?!?

– What is Snapchat?

Who is Blake Edwards?

19.9.17

– https://jimmanueljoseph.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/superman-suicide-counselor/

I think I would have preferred the (brutally honest) Dark Knight’s help/advice (better than the sentimental Man of Steel)…?

E.g. “I bet your parents taught you that you mean something, that you’re here for a reason. My parents taught me a different lesson, dying in the gutter for no reason at all… They taught me the world only makes sense if you force it to.”

– I watched around 8 episodes of “The Handmaid’s Tale” season 1.

It definitely does NOT deserve the Emmy award!

Capitalism/individualism (personal rights and chaos)

Vs.

Socialism/communism (common good and oppression)

Is there a third (better) alternative??

Grave crises call for extreme measures, right?

I don’t think it’s anti-Christian.

Fanatic secularism

Vs.

Religious fundamentalism

Dogmatic liberalism

Jezebels, Marthas, Mayday, Quakers

What do you choose when you have to decide between survival and dignity?!

Can tyranny ever take root where (most of) the people are fearless/fierce?

Compare with the freedom-struggle of the androids in Westworld – a far better show – I did NOT regret binge-watching that one!

– Limited series

– TV series:

“Transparent” season 1 episode 1 & 2

Trans-parent! 😉😈😛

Kanchi Sankaracharya confesses to, & justifies, murder…!

2.9.17

– erasure

consul

Adversity & nobility 

Character as achievement 

Achievement as pleasure

Parallel lives

The stories of gods 

Inspiring > fascinating 

Noble losers 

Romulus & Theseus 

Old school

Perils & rewards 

Negative & positive freedoms

Discourses & meditations

Private person

– Passion + control = discipline 

Punished, for laughing at tyranny

– What is the relationship between morality & law?

What do ethics & aesthetics have to do with each other?

How are metaphysics & politics related?

– “To study philosophy is to learn to die.” – Epictetus

Exclusively desiring the freedom of the will

“Is it harder for an emperor or a slave, to be free?”

– Outer freedom & inner slavery

Apparent slavery & real freedom

– A good ruler is subject to necessity.

– “To live everyday as if it were your last.”. – Marcus Aurelius 

– Distinguish:

Famous

&

Great

– If this is not virtue, then what is??

– picketing

Twitter handle

“abhiyan”

“majlis”

Dera Sacha Sauda

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh

Lookout notice

Progressive closure

Teacher training

Doklam

Road building

posturing

BRICS Plus

Limited conflict

Border war

China expert

NAFTA & TPP

augury

NEET

Cabinet reshuffle

Post-Harvey Texas

– UPI

BHIM

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.org.npci.upiapp

4.9.17

– Blue Whale (game) 

3.9.17

– estuary

– Relational dynamics:

Direct/indirect & commission/omission

1. Direct commission
2. Direct omission
3. Indirect commission
4. Indirect omission

– Over

Over & out

4.9.17

– The pleasure of achievement and the achievement of pleasure

– Self-transformation ~ inward cultivation

– Sex (desire) + death (sacrifice) = life (ecstasy)!

– Thinking according to the world… toward a utopia of the real

To exit, without having entered

Philosophical desire/decision/delusion 

Abandoning the site of the world

The identity of transformation 

The horizon of presupposition/assumption/pretension/belief

Man in general ~ anthropological essence

The subject for the world

Transcendental hallucination/illusion

The world in-itself 

The world as material for the auto-constitution of the subject

Subject-agency & site of production 

An immanent practice against the exception of thought

Objectivist action 

Pernicious mode of attachment to its object

Enunciation/enunciability/enunciated 

Objectivation/objectivity/objectified 

Unitary conflation of heterogeneous orders

Idealized practice & action upon the world

The anti-democratic nature of philosophy 

Exemption ~ exaltation ~ legitimation 

Auto-affection – philosophical contortion/somersault 

Supplement of alterity & unity, relative to the other

Non-convertible unity & convertible duality

Quasi-dialectical games

Purely performative identity

Given, without an act of giving

The determined transcendental identity of thought & practice

Performation-in-the-last-instance

Performativity as linguistic form

Man-in-person as without-consistency

– My purpose/plan:

Contemplative lifestyle = maximum perfection + maximum enjoyment –> maximum impact!

Sculpt your body, Joe.

(And shape her life too) 

5.9.17

– If & when I get to 500 followers for my blog, should I celebrate it as a milestone?

– Looking up from under the water of a cenote in Dos Ojos, Mexico

https://www.bing.com/az/hprichbg/rb/DosOjos_EN-AU11313156087_1366x768.jpg

– cenote

American Spanish

– International Phonetic Alphabet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English

– Solitude & creativity

Boredom & inspiration 

Suffering & profundity 

– The political failure and theoretical revival of Marxism

The victims of Marxism

General theory of victims

Double victimization

Reversibility/convertibility of victim and victimizer

Non-philosophy as communism/democracy “in thought”

Communism = democracy-of-the-last-instance

Labor power & force of thought

Communism is the generic constant of history

The metaphysics of science

Philosophy, science and Marxism

Scientific (falsifiability) and philosophical failure (Dedivinization)

The singularity of identity

The failure to circumscribe the real/human

Situation ~ conjuncture

The history of the term

Agent provocateur

Representation/model

Universal conjuncture

The politics of philosophy

The failure of Marxism (not the end of metaphysics) as the conjuncture of philosophy

Uni(-versal)

The irreducible human

The One as the singular

Thinking the human without recourse to (concepts like) being, otherness, etc.

Philosophy as capital ~ philosophical capitalism

Distinguish:

World

&

Globe

The global/circular/self-referential nature of philosophical thought

univocal

Productive failure

Non-philosophical mysticism

Authoritarian forms of thought

Anti-World

The persecuted

Philosophy’s foreclosure of man

Perspective of the victim

Subject-in-struggle, vision-in-one, man-in-man, stranger, radical solitude, the lived, ultimation, mutation, heresy, cloning, unision, radical vulnerability

Amorous method

Equipping immanent revolt outside of philosophy

Philosophy as the tyrannical/orthodox universe of meaning

Non-Christian science

One-in-one!

The immanent clones of Christ

The essence misused and obliterated by the agenda-laden narratives

A subject separate from the world, a subject out of time

Perpetually/ordinarily persecuted

Non-standard philosophical insistence

gnostic caste

Living-without-life

Thinking the absolute

The hermetic ordeal

Contemporary economic theory as modern iterations of archaic divination practices

“Keep your mind in hell and do not despair” – Hesychasm

Rigid distinction between ancient and future

Conceptual and practical materials

Mysticism of fusion/communion/reconciliation/synthesis

Vs.

Mysticism of/by separation

False mixtures

Hallucinatory modes of alienation and conformity

Their general identity, missed by always looking for a higher unity

Dualysis/unilateral duality – treatment of theoretical admixture

The foreclosure (unknowability) of the one is axiomatic

Non-one

Triadic construal of unity as symptomatic of the failure to think from the real one

Liberate abstraction from its totalizing/englobing function

Identities are too generic to be captured by conceptualization – cannot be identified

Christo-fiction/mystical discourse

Identities are not essences – conditions for possible activity or expression

An unlearned knowledge

Vs.

A learned ignorance

The one is each, but each is not the one

The human real as cause of the mystical posture

Immediate ~ non-dialectical

All of human reality is already corrupted by the World

The World is the philosophical ordering of reality

Sacrificial reality & processes of distortion, generalization & subordination

Philosophy as the transcendental language that justifies the form of the world

A justification of reality to the real

The unbearable human real (as foreclosed to the one) is the cause of philosophy

All acts of philosophy are conscripted in advance by this auto-immune mode of explanation

Fictionalizing/cloning the one

Unfolding/differentiation

Only humans, no humanity

Distinguish genericity and particularity

Symptoms of the hallucinatory sufficiency of the world/God-the-world/Hell

one-ing

Salvation is in & for Hell

System of conformity

The neutralization of identity is the conformism of the world

The politics of Hell

Primacy of last identity

Thought as immanent retro-action

The real is future by thought

Distinguish abstraction & speculation

Distinguish anteriority and primacy

glyph

grapheme

Future anterior

Rewriting the past

Phantasmatic rendering of the trauma

Psychoanalysis – retroactive symbolic restructuring of the imaginary

God in Christ ~ pre-eminence of Christ ~ the real in all things

Eternal insistence/radical lived

Creating Vs. Identifying

Dismember & remember

Becoming the redeemed-in-person

Persistence of the past

Gnosis of the resurrected body

The real one of generic identities

Denial of the sufficiency of biology

The newborn

Distinguish cause & occasion

Born without birth

Heretical/persecuted or conforming/complicit

Cloning as an act of mystical fiction

Human in-past

Neither in or of, but for, the world

From rejects (of the world), to ejectors (from the one)

The consumptumation (consumption + consummation) of Hell

Organon for construction 

The end-game of future Christs

Self-relation/personal reminiscences

The stranger never identifies herself

Platonic re-encircling of identity

Forgetting of false continuity

Theodicy as the default mode of worldly thought – justification of the status quo

A radically novel access to the in-past – the remembered without memory

The remembered non-essence more profound than all essence

Experimental experience/experiential experiment of radical simplicity

Hesychasm & Hesychia

Special poverty

Making-do-without

Making-do-with-the-Hellgod

– Do I wish myself for Teacher’s Day?!

– The discipline of indulgence

The spiritual as opposed to the social

– Distinguish:

Financial,

Economic,

Material &

Physical

– excelsior

– http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/celebrating-spirit-teachers-day/

Today is also:

– International Day of Charity – Mother Teresa (Saint of Calcutta)

– Robert Farrar Capon’s death

– Editorial Articles app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blacktooth.editorialsopinionindia

6.9.17

– The transcendental, but determined, identity of thought & practice 

Withdrawal from the exception of philosophy 

Philosophical reality & intervention

Judgments of perception & judgments of experience 

Philosophy-in-person

Things of the world

Form of the world

Intermediary schema

Regional forms of knowledge 

Identification/confusion/sublation 

Transcendentals as absolute metaphors for experience

Surplus value of meaning

Representational modality

The transcendental as the transformed empirical

Cloning as reduced philosophy 

Gaining simplicity/minimality 

Radical identity ~ unilateral duality

Identity as desired

Vs.

Identity as performed

Non-unity, not meta-unity 

Practical gain at the level of theory

Explanation of philosophy 

Reciprocal determination of thought and the real

Suspension of the philosophical postulate

Interpretation Vs. Transformation 

Understanding Vs. Theorizing

Philosophy as global overview/contemplation

Auto-specular

Philosophical functions like hermeneutics, deconstruction & dialectics

Representations & determinations

The jurisdiction of philosophical tradition

Reducing philosophical representations to inert raw material for non-philosophical construction

Unrepresentable agency or instance

Transcendental recursion

Non-philosophical condition of combination/mixture

Philosophical operations – division, prioritization, analysis & synthesis

Science & art subsumed by philosophy 

Distinguish transcendental & idealist

The “other than” dimension of the real

Ontological hierarchy

A transcendental practice

The world for itself

Soliciting the real

Being-given-in-the-real

Immanent practice as radically heterogenous to all representation

Distinguish:

A priori form of the world (the transcendental)

&

World-object as sufficient reality (absolute representation)

Philosophy & man are reciprocally convertible

A circular, dual, unitary, encompassing, exclusive, infinitely nuanced definition 

Man’s non-philosophical essence

Liberating thought from philosophy

The politics of philosophical subjection

Man-in-man or in-man – a posited axiom

Leaving behind the aporias of philosophical difference 

The naïve intuitive horizon of philosophy – the world of representations or metaphysical objects

Distinguish the real, in-man & subject

Man, without essence/consistency – dispossessed of substance as well as nothingness

No scalability!

The in-man is radically autonomous because man can only be found in-man rather than in philosophy or the world.

The subject is the  indivisible clone produced on the basis of the world under the influence of the in-man.

The subject registers the minimum of relationality that philosophy imposes upon the in-man, but it is also the clone-form that the latter imposes upon philosophy.

The subject & in-man are identical in-the-last-instance. The subject is determined-in-the-last-instance by the in-man.

The asymmetrical cooperation of distinct roles, without juxtaposition 

Primary ultimation 

Philosophy as the realm of objects that is the universal & necessary form of the world

Humans are without-philosophy

Subjects-for-philosophy/world

The real-transcendental indifference & the appropriation of philosophy (stripped of its sufficiency)

The poor in spirit/essence/philosophy

Auto-pragmatics

Self-positing in a nihilist mode ~ self-repudiation 

Utopian/uchronic force

The world as such

&

The world in itself

Relating to the world, not as an entity, and without the knowledge of (its) existence!

– Without the ecstasy of exhaustion, you reach the exhaustion of ecstasy!

7.9.17

– reveries

non-relation

Cinematic presence

Narrating life

Vs.

Living

Story as abstraction

Narration & discontinuity

Metanarrative – the human struggle to create consistency & coherence

Cosmic destruction & potential redemption

The perfectly ordinary & ultimately insurmountable senselessness/enigma of human existence

Affirming life, without pretension

Striking parallels

No development in the human essence

Living-without-life

Nuancing/softening an outlandish statement

The human, is neither “thrown”, “remaining”, “to come” or “undead”, but present-as-persecuted

Not being-in-the-world, but subject-for-the-world

The human & the world are not distinct in relation, but different by separation

The non-historical human

Neither world-historical, deconstructive, critical or clinical

the-World

The temporal process of arriving/World-agenda

Vs.

Life-in-the-last-instance or Future Christ

Past without passing

The despised & rejected (corner)stone

laconic

Existence out-of-time

Utterly ordinary & perpetual persecution

Excluded, harassed, betrayed & murdered by the temporality of this passing World

An ultimatum always already here

Neither the radical passivity of the abject nor the radical activity of the revolutionary

The distinctive mark of continuous revolt against the World, whose most basic form of violence is to relate or correlate every need, concern or struggle to the needs, concerns or struggles in-the-World

The human struggle is a struggle precisely because it is separate from the struggle of the World

Axiomatic operation

the-philosophy

Writ large

Multiple iterations

Setting-into-relation

Order of discourse

Vs.

Ordering by the Real

Disintering mixtures of relatively transcendent with relatively immanent terms

– My occupation:

Unemployed!

7.9.17

– Traffic rider – eyes on the road & mind on the route

– Distinguish: (from Apple Music)

Essentials,

Deep cuts &

Next steps

– Eagle:

Alternate between flying (climb using its wings) and gliding (circle using the wind)

– Audience to artist:

Praise YOU for who you are!

Artist to audience:

THANK you for recognizing who I am!

8.9.17

– reveries

non-relation

Cinematic presence

Narrating life

Vs.

Living

Story as abstraction

Narration & discontinuity

Metanarrative – the human struggle to create consistency & coherence

Cosmic destruction & potential redemption

The perfectly ordinary & ultimately insurmountable senselessness/enigma of human existence

Affirming life, without pretension

Striking parallels

No development in the human essence

Living-without-life

Nuancing/softening an outlandish statement

The human, is neither “thrown”, “remaining”, “to come” or “undead”, but present-as-persecuted

Not being-in-the-world, but subject-for-the-world

The human & the world are not distinct in relation, but different by separation

The non-historical human

Neither world-historical, deconstructive, critical or clinical

the-World

The temporal process of arriving/World-agenda

Vs.

Life-in-the-last-instance or Future Christ

Past without passing

The despised & rejected (corner)stone

laconic

Existence out-of-time

Utterly ordinary & perpetual persecution

Excluded, harassed, betrayed & murdered by the temporality of this passing World

An ultimatum always already here

Neither the radical passivity of the abject nor the radical activity of the revolutionary

The distinctive mark of continuous revolt against the World, whose most basic form of violence is to relate or correlate every need, concern or struggle to the needs, concerns or struggles in-the-World

The human struggle is a struggle precisely because it is separate from the struggle of the World

Axiomatic operation

the-philosophy

Writ large

Multiple iterations

Setting-into-relation

– My occupation:

Unemployed!?

– General theory of victims

Non-standard philosophy

Interdisciplinarity and quantum theory

Intellectuals ~ philosophers

Com-passion

Unilateralizing suffering

Human-without-humanism

Injustice ~ victimization

Identification & solidarity

Non-human fellow-fiction

Generic science

– Laruelle in Translation Seminar series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKyNY0B8w6w

– Humanimality

9.9.17

– Movies:

“Phoenix” (2015)

Compare with “General Theory of Victims”!

– Video essay

– TV Series:

Ray Donovan (Season 1 Episode 1)

10.9.17

– Gauri Lankesh Patrike

Anne-Francois Schmid

Philo-fiction

– Common sense AND uncommon knowledge

11.9.17

– tautological/apodictic

– The Logos as meta-language

Pure existence; being as such