Heed this 67 year old tryst

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/Heed-this-67-year-old-tryst/article17093837.ece

Being a Christian is much much more (& maybe even other) than just love, joy & peace…!

A supremacist is just the public face of a narcissist, right?

The faith & hope of (some great) Indians in (a presently not-so-great) India, is truly awe-inspiring!

The opposite of reflective listening is projective speaking (sublimewe)!

Tamil Nadu’s untenable Act on Jallikattu

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/Tamil-Nadu%E2%80%99s-untenable-Act-on-Jallikattu/article17093830.ece

Compare this with the sacrificing of human lives for the sake of preserving culture/heritage, in a movie like “Monument Men”.

What exactly is the physical harm done to the bulls during the sport?

Is this a classical case of aesthetics Vs. ethics?

The Young India Fellowship Movie (Ashoka University)

via YouTube

WOW! I would love to be in a place like that… auditing classes of course 😉

Can I be a part of this 1 year program without the need to obtain  a degree or the requirement of passing assessments?

How radical or subversive or holistic is the education offered here, really? What about the spiritual-ethical dimension?

 

“India at seventy: A historian’s report card”

via The Hindu Lit for Life Annual Lecture Series – Dr Ramachandra Guha

Too overarching and vague? Not very informative for non-novices, but still enlightening & edifying…

If you want to understand India, then you must study Gandhi!

The Q&A sessions are sometimes more beneficial and interesting than the main presentation. So stay back!

 

WORDS

13.1.17
– I am both a misogynist & a feminist. 

I am male, therefore I am a chauvinist. 
– [12/01 6:14 pm] Immanuel Joseph: Faith is expecting too much… Expecting The unexpected & unimaginable

[12/01 6:16 pm] Immanuel Joseph: So we can relax! And we don’t need to know everything or be sure of anything

[12/01 6:16 pm] Immanuel Joseph: The Call itself can evolve!

[12/01 6:26 pm] Immanuel Joseph: I believe you have already begun. So I don’t think there is any need to push yourselves too much! Just taking things as they come and being perceptive/discerning might be enough…?

[12/01 6:34 pm] Immanuel Joseph: I think the future for you both should be more of smart work than hard work

[12/01 7:18 pm] Immanuel Joseph: I agree that GOD is sovereign (absolutely free), so anything is possible and the potential is always unlimited for dramatic & radical interventions

[13/01 9:36 am] Immanuel Joseph: Theologia crucis (deus absconditus) is actually just another form of theologia gloria (deus revelatus)!?

[13/01 9:40 am] Immanuel Joseph: Jesus replied, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

John 12:23 NET

http://bible.com/107/jhn.12.23.NET

[13/01 9:41 am] Immanuel Joseph: Eschatology is the temporal unfolding/development of apocalyptic/eternal reality…

[13/01 9:43 am] Immanuel Joseph: So, instead of saying the glory comes *after*, should we say the glory lies under/hidden, even in the HERE & NOW (within, among & around us)??

[13/01 9:44 am] Immanuel Joseph: Jn. 12:24 

…so the act of dying itself is life-giving… So no need to *wait* for a resurrection that is to come??
– Ethics is plural, right?! 

Ethics > psychology/culture

16.1.17
– Aishwarya Dhanush – beautiful conservatism!? Hmmm…… 
– Bharathi, Bharathidasan & Manikandan

Bharathiology

Mahakavi
– Should I start using a personal finance manager app? 

17.1.16
– Conscious coexistence 

Connected choice-making

The conscience of the Us 

Dance partner

Self-facilitation

Baby-making metaphor

My truth, your truth & our shared reality

Mutual satisfaction 

Needs & strategies

Sex, money & language

What am I going to do >> doing it >> what did I just do

18.1.17
– Pure awareness

Non-judgmental 

Body-knowledge

19.1.17
– Bloodless coup via subversive friendships

Delivering persons from:

1. Fear of systemic authority

2. Selfish desires & cares

3. Division/isolation from others
– Plucking ideas from the air! 

Playing sublimewe 24/7

Stabilizing the frequency

Incredible resonance 

Twin flames
– Focusing on your breathing, when driving, is NOT mindfulness! 
– I am able to use only a 5″ (screen size) mobile with one hand. 

20.1.17
– iterative

“Beware of touts”

whimsical

21.1.17
– What if your soulmate and life-partner are two different people? 
– “Doctor Strange” movie – Compare the characters & plot with the persons (me, Saras, Salome, Jairaj, etc.) in my life now…! 
19.1.17

– eldrich

neophiliac

uxorious

buggy

samizdat

“Cabal of Sanctimonious Hypocrites”

in-jokes

Moskva

“My Year of Reading Dangerously”

22.1.17

– “True Detective” – pessimism as radical, realistic optimism!

– Sublimating spiritual love into sexual lust!

What does it mean here to “be like water, my friend”?!

23.1.17

– Structure exists to support spontaneity!

Living out of body-awareness instead of system-consciousness

– The Focusing Institute

Rust Cohle – Philosophy of Pessimism (True Detective)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oX2xFo7JA4

WOW! This is definitely some heavy shit… one of my favorite videos for sure.

Hmmm… So, am I gonna watch the entire season 1 (already seen the Pilot)?

How did he know all this, if what he’s saying is indeed true??

The truth is, you never know……!