What Motivates Excessive Sexual Promiscuity?

Promiscuity is, as you suggest, a culturally determined concept, but is formally defined, according to Webster, as including not only frequent but “indiscriminate” sexual behavior. Preference for frequent sexual contacts is not necessarily the same as being sexually indiscriminating.

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Happenings

10.7.14

The free availability of information in this day & age in no way threatens the role of the teacher/professor/guide! People still need someone to help them process, structure & clarify the enormous data in any particular field, & monitor/evaluate their progress in learning…

Only the witness of an alternative community has the demonstrative power to break the spell that binds the masses!

14.7.14

When something is left undone in the previous day, should I try to make it up in the next one, or should I just forget it and live fully in the present?

10.7.14
– Upend
– Plan annual seminar
– I think “Spiritual Theology”, “Fundamental Theology”, “Personal Theology” & “Public Theology” would be essential subjects in a Christian Studies course…
– Limit one-to-one meetings to 1 per week.
– Theological education for all!
– “Dear joe, please forgive me for leaving you alone and breaking fellowship with you in christ and coming here… Sorry…”
“Hey……! Hmmm… it’s ok. Why are you saying this now??”

11.7.14
– Is it ok to love sleep?
If so, what about laziness?

12.7.14
– Movies: Ip Man
Was he real??
– Is it appropriate for a charitable organization to have their meetings in luxury hotels?

13.7.14
– Manga
Anime
– xoxo
– GIF
– Cosplay
– Cowgirl

14.7.14
– Extreme extremes as well as extreme moderation must be avoided. Just as work during the weekdays is limited, so should indulgence during the weekends!
– Movies:
Kill Bill 1&2

15.7.14
– Going cold turkey
– Web 2.0

16.7.14
– Alternation is the way to go!
50-50 is the ultimate, final & perfect mantra.
Indulgence & asceticism.
Freestyle study & course syllabus.
Slow & fast.
Spontaneous & systematic.
Rest & work.
Entertainment & religion.
Self & others.
Pleasure & duty.
Inward & outward.
Private & public.
Personal & social.
Spiritual & professional.
Desire & will.
– Alternate week – fellowship/ministry meeting, church worship service.
Alternate day – family prayer.
– Perforce
– Distinguish:
Incontinence
&
Promiscuity
– Satyriasis
– Partial frigidity
– Virility anxiety
– Don Juanism
– Idea flow
– Creativity
Vs.
Analysis
– Guided mastery
– D-school
– The beginner/childlike-mindset
– Permission to misbehave
Benign neglect
– From creative potential to creative confidence
– Transformative behaviours
– The problem of scaling
– From literacy to creativity
– K-12 education
– Behavioral economists
– Project-based learning
– Standardised tests
– Filling vessels
Vs.
Lighting fires
Recollection
Vs.
Repetition
– Ability + courage + determination = success
– Social innovation
– User research
– Juggler’s anxiety
– Micro-cultures
– Tom & David Kelly
– Variety + novelty + challenge = life!

17.7.14
– Behold what love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us ALL be called children of GOD. Yet that is what EACH & EVERY ONE of us is!
– Explore, experiment, adventure!
Direct the self,
Stretch the self,
And pamper the self…

Miscellaneous

7.7.14
Tacit – implicit (wordless/silent)

8.7.14

The Good is nothing but the beautiful truth or true beauty!

Entresol = mezzanine

Foofuraw

Noosphere

Cantonal referendum

7.7.14
– Would Zizek be happy with an orthodox Christian (theological) reading of Hegel’s philosophy?
– Unfreedoms

8.7.14
– My place is the interface:
Between religion & philosophy,
Between spirituality & theology,
Between faith & culture.

9.7.14
– Brazil vs. Germany
What a ripe occasion for the philosophy-theology of sport!
– Sleep naked
– Friends in low places

Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World

The Great Books of the Western World was a project by Encyclopedia Brittanica to identify the most significant literature in Western culture. You can find the list of authors and titles on Wikipedia, but they don’t have descriptions.

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Things

4.7.14

When reading, speak aloud new names, technical terms & foreign language words

Philosophy vs. Ideology vs. Critical theory
Where does Theology figure here?

4.7.14
– I am sick & tired, totally fed up & utterly frustrated by all this bullshit – this life, this world, this GOD, but mostly with myself!
Overcoming the Fall dramatically » repairing things gradually » enduring & weathering the Fall!
– There is a different kind of joy that comes from being able to say No to one’s own desires. From pleasure to confidence – from merely experiencing pleasantness to feeling good about what one has become!
– From frustration to astonishment!
From humiliation to praise!
From despair to wonder!
– Doing nothing » doing everything, but with a detached attitude.
Knowing that you don’t HAVE to do anything (external compulsion to prove oneself) » doing something, because you NEED to (internal drive to express oneself)!
– When & how did I turn 34 years old?!
Is it possible to become wise/mature with age and still maintain the freshness of youth?

5.7.14
– Divine madness!
– Ebullience
– Steps to freshen up my sagging spirit:
1. Try new & complex challenges – stretch yourself! iPad games, PC problem-solving games (lumosity.com), attend events, etc.
2. 15-30 min. of contemplation everyday.
3. Meet new people.
– Elfin Fey
– “Hey… Do you know what ‘xenophobia’ is? Check it out – it’s relevant to the comment you made on ‘chinkis’…”
– Movies: The Burmese Harp (Japanese)
The dead, the divine & the existential
Power of art – music & spirituality
Nation vs. Humanity vs. GOD
Mystical mission vs. Utilitarian activism
The Burmese ruby buried in the ashes-dust of human sin-death ~ the crucified Christ sown into the hearts & minds of all people

6.7.14
– The angelic chorus
– Maybe the Resurrection is more about the conquest of the fear (power/sting) of death than the destruction of (the reality of) death itself!
– Ps.46:9 – Christian mission, the weapons race & world peace
– Jews-circumcised & Gentiles-uncircumcised ~ the religious & the secular.
Petrine & Pauline evangelism in our context.
Circumcision (Judaism) ~ baptism (early Christianity) ~ religious conversion (comtemporary church)
– The appeal to divine revelation as the claim to universal validity.
– Inspiration » conviction » consecration
– Never forget the massacre of the Church following (the powerful demonstrations of) Resurrection, Ascension & Pentecost!
– The ‘authority’ of a free person!
Originality as authenticity
– What would Paul have done if the Jerusalem Apostolic group had rejected & opposed his message & ministry??
It’s not hard to answer!
– Divine calling & institutional approval
Inward imperatives & external authorities
– Sincere reverence & serious attention equated with literal interpretation & dogmatic zeal!
– How can a static/rigid gospel ‘transform’ evolving people in a labile context?
– Apocalypse – maybe the ‘veil’ is akin to the emperor’s new clothes!
This is it.
This is all.
This is good!!!
– The urgent & crucial need for the radical reconstruction of religious language in keeping with the Spirit’s move in this age…
– The blood, sweat & tears of a few » bread & wine for everyone!
– Deliverance ~ rest
– Movies:
“Ninja 2 – Shadow of a Tear” – grief » rage » depression/violence!
“Spirited Away” – we have to do with demons & angels!

Nuggets

30.6.14

– Maybe the 1 hour of silence & solitude (weekly) should be shifted to Sundays!

– The fundamental layer of everyday life is the contemplative attitude/approach/disposition (being present, open & willing). This must be maintained every single day without exception. The entire week must have this ‘Sabbath rhythm’.

– Why are my Sundays so (inwardly) hectic?! Don’t binge & purge, just relax & enjoy, Joe……

– The need to be needed is universal!

Necessity » significance

– Sighing, groaning & stretching – Nature, Man & Spirit!

– Movies:

Deep Blue See

Science, ethics & religion

Naturalism, humanism & individualism

Utilitarianism vs. categorical imperative

Despair & survival

Faith & struggle

Stress (personal) & conflict (social)

– Neither erotomania, nor megalomania nor altruism!

– What is love without the beloved?

What is faith without GOD?

What is hope without eternity?

– Can there ever be a flexible system? It seems to be either rigidity or chaos……

– The deontological seems to be the only sure basis for an effective & consistent utilitarianism!

Yes, Sabbath is made for man & not the other way around. But can man live well without paying any attention to the Sabbath command??

– The philosopher as therapist!

– Camp (adj.)

– Pastiche

– If I am a genius, I am a genius, I can’t help it. If I am not, I am not, & I can’t help that either!

1.7.14

– Vanya Rachel

Humanities: Four strands – Economics, Literature, Sociology (Development Studies), Philosophy.

1. Socrates – know cosmos » know yourself.

2. Start with contemporary issues

3. Introspection – self-examination – question of identity.

Critical Theory.

Ecology.

Politics.

Anthropology.

Religion.

Intellectual history.

History.

Communication.

Linguistics.

Cultural Studies.

2.7.14

– “The desire to achieve something is actually sin…work and production is a curse…Cain built the first city but Abraham was looking for a city who‘s architect and founder is God….God works and we just enjoy a sabbath way of being :)” – R

“Ha ha ha! Mmm……

I guess we all need something to work, fight & suffer for. Some worthy cause. Not out of GOD’s demand, but our own inner need for direction & purpose, & the realization of individual responsibility in the light of the current context (& the Passion of the Christ, of course!). It is a matter of how Sabbath-rest and labour/mission complement each other to give a holistic health & balance to our lives…”

“I think we can resolve the radical (& even violent) tension between inward contemplation (freedom of soul-self) and outward action (sociality of body-world), to a certain extent so that it doesn’t become destructive, by keeping them as two necessary levels of our life – the essential & the existential.”

“Something similar to your example during the last SFG meeting – our simultaneous existence at the level of awareness of the absolute liberating power of death, & the practical need to obey duly appointed & well functioning aithorities like the police. The former is definitely more important & necessary than the latter, but it (fortunately) does not always the contradict the latter!” – J

– We, as persons, differ from each other only in degree/proportion, not in quality/essence, right?

3.7.14

– “Fake event to work around calandar issue.”

– Maybe you are not paying enough attention to the details of the present moment (which alone is in your hands – the here & now!), & that’s why you’re succumbing to monotony (the illusion that every day is just the same).

– Maybe your pessimistic philosophy is caused by neurochemical imbalance in your brain!

Examine the psychology of the philosopher as a person, & the philosophy behind the psychologist’s theories…

28.6.14

Heat index (weather)

Approaches to any subject/topic – historical/developmental, philosophical/systematic/theoretical, psycho-social (critical/contextual), comparative-evaluative, practical-ethical, communication-linguistic, spiritual-theological, etc.

Darezhan Omirbayev – ideology vs. spirituality

Churlish

2.7.14

Distinguish:
Cultural Studies
&
Anthropology

Can the input of certain kinds of content alter the very structure of the mind?

Is the Christian neither stoic-activist (duty) nor epicurean-hedonist (desire), or is he both?

Indulgence must be short & fast. Rest must be long & slow. Work must be regular & flowing (neither fast nor slow). The first two are periodic.

Hour of prayer

Sport – somewhere in between the news & the movies. Watch it!

3 levels of learning:
Observing the teacher doing it
Practising the art under supervision
Becoming an independent practitioner

Reality, rationality & value

The truth of my meaning (accuracy of interpretation)
Vs.
The truth of what the author/text says (objective validity)