24.1.17
– Mysticism as 4D projection of theology & theology as the 3D shadow of mysticism
Both are essential for creatures like us – actually 3D with potential for 4D interaction……
25.1.17
– Distinguish:
The everyday
&
The ordinary
– Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj
sos.org
– New rule of life:
Essential balanced/healthy routine
Basic chores
Relating to those around
Moderate sleep & food & sex
Fuck all self-made systems & social norms
Live simple. Live free. Live strong!
– Socialization
Vs.
Individuation
26.1.17
– Doomsday prophecies & indecent proposals
Gandhi, Nehru & Ambedkar
Core emotion & spiritual discourse
सत्संग, नामदान
– Did marriage begin as incest?
27.1.17
– Life-partners – you both need to maximize each other’s freedom!
Both freedom from, and freedom for…
– Sometimes, more information about something only leads to more misunderstanding!
– Stability through safety & trust
Me-we-us + you + he/she/them
Maybe you & I are part of the me.
And he/she/them is part of the we (social relations)
Organs >> body >> world
– My actions do impact you, yes. But I am responsible only for my behavior, & you are the one responsible for your feelings.
– Full of desire, yet totally free!
Think >>believe >> know >> love
Love > know > believe > think
Life >> persons. Person > life!
– selfsameness
Our most unassuming assumptions
Exploring truth, caring for self and creating new modes of being
Impudence as a virtue
Cynic parrhesiastic game ~ Socratic dialogue – sublimewe experiential learning
28.1.17
– Her influence on me is revolutionary! Am I doing the same to her??
– Movie:
“உரியடி” – meaning? Can objective violence be fought by a subjective response? Can the Powers be fought without clashing with ‘flesh & blood’? Many so-called non-violent people are just apathetic cowards…
“La La Land” – the us is a success when the me’s (I & you) are fulfilled…!?
“House of Cards” Season 1 – intoxicating, drunk with passion/lust & ingenuity/intrigue. There is conflict even within the wolf-pack!
Distinguish:
Sin (lively)
&
Evil (deadly)
– “Mathesis” & “askesis”
Theoretical exercise
Athletic theory
Constructing a behavioral matrix ~ a foundation for ethics
Truth games
Oversimplify ~ mislead
Truth, self & language
Reflective sensing
Re-remembering
Dander
– Sometimes, the “life partner” could be more than one person, at different times……?
No one relationship can fully satisfy all the dimensions of a human being!
I think that the complete/perfect life-partner should be a combination of male & female, young & mature, intellectual & emotional, etc. to be optimal.
Let all be in harmony,
Let each be free,
And let every one be intimate with other,
This for me, is unity & bliss.
29.1.17
– Grigor Dimitrov – my next favorite in tennis…?
30.1.17
– dotage
steep/soak
another(s)
Concern, consideration & care
Artificial/manufactured/implanted desires
Self-serving fictions
Elite complacency
Indian exceptionalism
Penne & zucchini
Summer squash
Social Psychology, Cultural Anthropology & Political Philosophy
Pankaj Mishra
Wage slavery
The superfluous man, the disinherited masses
Competition & mimesis
Demagoguery & anarchy
Terrorism & individualism
Live-streaming murders
Nihilism & ressentiment
Identity & approbation
Over-socialization
Mimicry & vanity
Multimedia dreams
Ideology & national unity
Social metamorphoses
Lutyens class
Money, power & sectarianism
Ambitious hacks/hirelings
The dawn of an era of harsh clarity
In-built systemic contradictions
Cults of disaffection & fantasy
– Let everyone find the (different kinds of) intimacy they desire in another (or another(s)
Everything is complicated! But some things are better than others
As long as two (or more) people are going to live together, share materially and support each other in personal growth, their relationship will continue to flourish. So, there is no need to fear that there will be any dilution or distraction! In fact, fulfilled individuals are better lovers…
Instead of focusing on one “primary relationship” (Us), if we focused on fulfilled persons (You & Me), then the relationships between such individuals would automatically prosper…!
– A global network of local groups!
The us is NOT a natural phenomenon, like marriage. It is what is formed by the many me’s, as a response/challenge to the we.
31.1.17
– You are not yet enlightened, because you are so in love with darkness.
The enlightened person is the one who has fallen enough out of love with darkness, that he/she can now choose to open their eyes!
What is the relationship between ignorance & desire?
– Rebellion, riot & revolution
– SwiftKey for Android is much better than in iOs. Why?
– | Om Namah Shivaya |
“I offer to Siva a respectful invocation of His Name”
The nature of the mantra is the calling upon the higher self; it is the calling upon Shiva, the destroyer deity, to aid in the death (destruction of ego) and rebirth achieved during meditation. This goes generally for mantras and chants to different gods, which are different aspects of the higher self.
| Sarve janah sukhino bhavantu |
“May everybody in the world be happy!”
AMEN.
– Movies:
“Bang Gang” – what would a (sexual) orgy look like, if not fuelled by wild teen hormones, but by adult sagacious intimacy?!
Distinguish from:
Gang bang
1.2.17
– Tell it as it is
F*ck/fcuk is a contradiction!
– Joseph ~ spiritual theology ~ small group ministry
Saras ~ sublimewe ~ the device
In what order?
– Another (purported) philosopher-psychologist dialogue:
1. The danger for the (so-called) us-orientation folks is that they might unwittingly be letting their personal fulfillment be determined by, or be at the mercy of, the state of their close relationships (family, marriage, friendships, etc.).
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_I6S6xhYBtcZ19tanFuMjNjQVU/view?usp=drivesdk
Refer the above pic:
I understand the foundation of dependence as spiritual/inward (GOD), the ground floor of independence as psychological/personal (self) and the upper stories of interdependence as relational/social (others or world).
The middle layer is crucial for moving from private to public success! Many people seem to be building the higher floors without a sound foundation & ground floor…
This is fertile ground for the evil of codependency (& more)!
2. The danger for the me-oriented people (like me) might be narcissism. So, we need to be in vital & authentic inter-personal relationships to guard against it. In a similar fashion, the us folks would need to exercise solitude & introspection in some way, to keep from falling over, because of lopsidedness…
3. I think the words “I” and “you” and “he/she/them” are very important. The “me” must include the I & you. And the “us” and/or “we” must include he/she/them. This must be made explicit in the game, rather than left latent/implicit.
This would keep people from mistaking the me for I, and mistaking the us of sublimewe for an exclusive/restrictive you-me dyad.
4. We must also be more concerned about seeking “the truth”, rather than just focusing on “my reality”. Emotionalism and rationalism are equally harmful distortions! Getting in touch with one’s own beliefs & values, and understanding those of others, who are different from oneself, must lead to a greater clarity about what is common to us as human beings, irrespective of our orientation/perspective…
Pluralism should not lead us into the slippery slope of relativism! Dogmatism is the opposite danger.
5. Finally, while accepting & affirming what I am now, we should never settle for stagnation or mediocrity…
Each one needs to keep moving their own faith closer to the truth and developing their practice according to their experience of this truth-faith dialectic.
For this, we surely need each other!
PS:
– Maybe sublimewe should be called sublimeus instead (because of the us being more explicit/emphatic than the we)??
– To keep philosophy/spirituality from becoming glorified/mystified psychobabble, it needs an authentic dialogue partner in theology……!
– Filioque:
The us is what happens at the intersection of the me(s) and the we.
Just like the Holy Spirit is what happens in between the Father & the Son. The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father & the Son. The Son proceeds only from the Father. The Father does not proceed from the Son.
So, the Father & the Son are persons, but the Holy Spirit is not!
The US is therefore NOT an “entity” (in the strict sense of the word) like the me the we are distinct (though not separate) entities.
The us is not a third circle, but a zone of overlap/contact/interaction between the circles of the me(s), in the context of the we…
The us of sublimewe is a response of the me(s) to the we. But marriage or other social relationships are actually a formation/product of the we using the me(s)!
– Queer philosophy & corporal spirituality:
http://www.interalia.org.pl/en/artykuly/bodily_fluids/bodily_fluids.htm
All hail the FLESH! 🙂
– Why did Kierkegaard hate journalists so much?
Didn’t he know of any good journalism??
– “…those who have never learned do not want to learn.”
2.2.17
– Healthy snack – nuts (cashew, walnut, pistachio, groundnut, almond) + dry fruits (raisin, fig, dates) mix!
3.2.17
– Leather – are buffaloes/cows killed for their hide?
Is referring PETA a good idea?
Distinguish:
Bull, cow & buffalo
– Nihilism, pessimism & anarchism
4.2.17
– Violating persons in the name of “relationships” – demonic follies! 😠
– Domestication of the Queer
refluidify ~ vivify
The body’s abjectified traces & productions
Fertilizing without birthing!
The alt-realm
Corporal paroxysms
Visceral vocabulary
Poetry, fiction & theory
Intermediary materiality & sublimation
Moving from affectivity to intuition
Wage slavery
fibbing
– The what & the how come BEFORE the why!
– If you’re living with people who do not appreciate (who) you (are), then it’s time you moved out and connected with others who do.
– If we both compromise our own unique/extreme positions, move toward each other and meet in the middle, then is that a win-win solution?
No! Then, we both lose, because no one gets what they really want.
Is the glass half empty or half full?
The challenge, can both your cup and mine be filled??
– Milo Yiannopoulos:
Very interesting & provocative
This guy basically is for free speech as against political correctness.
I agree & applaud that!
Free speech also includes hate speech, explicit/obscene language, etc.
Some others are using his speech as a tool to promote their own (narrower) causes…
The distinction he makes between (hate) speech & (violent) acts is very important.
– 2 single persons – 1 + 1 = 2
Marriage – 1/2 + 1/2 = 1!
Fuck that shit! 😠
I want an intimate relationship which is synergistic, not reductionist……
1 + 1 = 4! 😇
24.1.17
– What is the fourth dimension??
Unified theory
Square –> cube –> ??
Circle –> sphere –> ??
Triangle –> tetradhedron –> ??
Teseract!
Sacred geometry
The star tetrahedron
– Environmental history
temerity
Democracy – movement, association & dissent
The (evil) genius of the caste system!
Prejudice >> restriction
Constitutional religion
Discrimination as violence
Dalit intellectuals
demonstrative
Adivasis
State industrialization >> liberalization
Dispossession ~ exploitation
Linguistic states
Sinhala & the LTTE
Historian
Vs.
Ideologue
Civility ~ nonviolence
Mass poverty
Farmer-entrepreneurs
Demographic dividend
Jobless growth
The intellectuals, industrialists and politicians
Pernicious myths spread through malevolence and ignorance
Zero-waste philosophy
Systematic scorn
Environmental economists
Energy policy
Distinguish:
Country
&
Subcontinent
Balkanization
Benign power
Elections-only democracy
Suppression of civil society
Modifying/amending the constitution
Partisan police
Outsourcing politics
Compensatory overreach
The politicization of the bureaucracy
Panchayati Raj
Princely states
Can widespread illiteracy & universal franchise go together?
The monstrosity of perfectionism
India > Hindu/Hindi
Anti-national patriots
Jingoism & hysteria
– Fiction – thematic novelty, stylistic excellence and depth of insight
– Netas & babus
“மக்கள் போராட்டம்”
– Is it possible to be both public and intellectual?
25.1.17
– “Sant mat”
– “बिजली, सड़क, पानी”
– Religious imaginations
Modern myths
The heavenly man
A spiritual adventurer full of sober enthusiasm
Thought-world
Metapsychotic
Fantasy enactment & fetishism
Venus ~ Lucifer
Bolshevism
cathouse
Kierkegaard ~ churchyard!
Existence-communication
Individuality & eternity
Inwardness ~ reality!
Spiritual liberty
Vs.
Social survival
– Skepticism as enlightenment
Nihilism as salvation
Pessimism as liberation
26.1.17
– Word parts – root, prefix & suffix
tableux
dulcet
De jure fact
De facto spirit
Going glocal, and Tamil chauvinism
– Around a month ago, suddenly my iPad Mini’s storage dramatically increased (long ago, it had in a similar drastic fashion, decreased). To this day, I don’t know why.
But does this (synchronicity!?) have anything to do with meeting Saras/sublimewe (approximately a month back)……??
28.1.17
– “I would like to be (one of) your life-partner(s), ma,am!”
– I must stop using leather products.
29.1.17
– I’m in love with your (& my) body!
– Experiential learning, group dynamics, crucible of relations, human process laboratory, sensitivity training, T-group, action research
31.1.17
– German – did Luther and Nietzsche both speak the same language?!
The innocent wild
Amor fati – being numbered with the masters in ceremony (emcees) of existence
The necessity of redemption ~ the redemption of necessity
The history of GOD or the story of the eternal
“One repays a teacher badly, if one remains only a pupil!”
4.2.17
– VUCA
Volatility, uncertainty, complexity & ambiguity
5.2.17
– Female phallus
inaesthetics
Speed philosophy
ipseity
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