NUGGETS

23.3.19
– Why do I always have to see the faces of these fucking politicians on the front page of all the newspapers?!
– Who  is Joy Bhattacharjya?
Business end
– Contemplative:
1. ~ 1 hour mindful breathing twice a week
2. ~ 15-30 minutes a day
3. Deep breath once every 15 minutes
4. Focused engagement when doing any task
– Mahaghatbandhan
JeM
Sleeper cells
lessor; lessee
mortgage
purview
FII – Foreign Institutional Investors
SoC – System on Chip
AR – Augmented Reality
Materials Science
“Shooting potent blanks”
Un(re)productive/subversive sex
“The soul is not in the body. The body is in the soul!”
Theropod
Dinosaur (non-avian)
clade
holotype
Jurassic extinction event
Reverse genetic engineering
Articulated fossils
Serrated teeth
braincase
Rocket propellant
missive
– What are the pros & cons of being a recluse?
24.3.19
– Why have I lost interest in playing video games?
– Secular saint
photo-bombing
Church of John Coltrane
Who is Douglas Lain?
Psychophysics
Gustav Fechner
Metascience
Spiritualism & mediumship
Theurgy
Presentiment
Retrocausation
Noetic sciences
– I think I am no longer “qualified” to conduct retreats, etc.
Although spirituality still remains my field…!
– Welcome to the banquet!
It’s open for all to come, without exception…
– Lenten retreat @ Kalena Agrahara Church:
True conversion
Repentance > penance
Personality assassination
Yoke of oppression ~ pointing fingers ~ speaking falsely
Offending God ~ hurting ourselves ~ neglecting others
Lenten renewal Vs. Spiritual suicide
Renounce & return
Sin ~ turning one’s back on GOD
Decentred/cut off from the source
What is hindering your prayers from being answered?
Blindness to one’s own evil – denial/defensiveness
Do you seriously/sincerely feel remorse for your wickedness?
Act of contrition – knowing, feeling & deciding
The tearful confessions of the abusive husband
Giving up knowledge, in order to become wise
The root problem is NOT the blunder, but the refusal to accept one’s responsibility for it and take corrective measures
The attitude of second-class citizens
Unrepentant attitude > disobedient conduct
STOP trying to cover up your guilt/shame
Do you ACCEPT that this thing in you is SIN??
Can prosperity be enjoyed without the danger of complacency?
What is keeping you from being transformed by Grace?
Salvation >> conversion >> salvation >> conversion >> salvation >>
Why are you not able to recognize, & enter into, the Kingdom of Heaven which is at hand??
Moving one from one sin to another, ad nauseum……….
– “Come to the banquet, there’s a place for you”
“O sacrament most holy, O sacrament divine,
All praise and all thanksgiving,
Be every moment thine!”
– A well-balanced routine throughout the year is better than having periods of busyness alternating with vacations!
– The spirit-world/Quantum reality – BEYOND time & space, life & death, energy & material, self & other…
– The point is NOT about avoiding mistakes, or never getting upset or preventing relational strain.
It’s about learning from, overcoming, & growing THROUGH, them!
– Nurture BOTH the devotional AND the critical attitudes!
The sacred mystery of suffering
– My sin – too easily finding fault with others and too hard to see my own blemishes
25.3.19
– Movies:
Drive
Compare with “Baby Driver” – this is a darker/mature version
The good guy is capable of greater tact, toughness, aggression & violence, than the baddest villain!
Drive – noun; verb
Distinguish:
Relational love
&
Fantasies of sacrifice
– TV series:
The Punisher (S01 E01) – cool
Bodyguard (S01 E01) – awesome!
Sherlock (S01 E01) – super
– Sobhita Dhulipala
Deathpop
26.3.19
– cold-call
– St. Joseph – husband of Mary & Guardian of Jesus
Hazrat Ali
Distinguish Shia & Sunni nations – Sunna Vs. Ayotallas
GOD’S will – desiderative & decretive
– March 20, 2019 – Erev Purim, International Day of Happiness & Holika Dahana!
27.3.19
– Hey Joe! When did you start asking yourself, “Is it okay to lie (in this matter)?”!!!
– India – the way forward:
1. Policy changes to address lacunae in governance
2. Political will to take on the major offenders – corrupt politicians/parties, large corporations/entrepreneurs, etc.
3. Grassroots movement for spiritual/cultural renewal
– Let’s see how long you can watch, without touching……!
Porn
Vs.
Hookups
– Lok Sabha poll tracker
Special Expenditure Observer of the EC
Art sleuth
NYAY scheme
28.3.19
– AVR – armed response vehicle
IRL – in real life
NPR
– 3 levels/elements of film-making:
1. Narrative development (plot/events/choices)
2. Character study (personal/existential)
3. Flow of consciousness/moods/ideals (of the creator)
Moving from basic to advanced.
Life/GOD/reality (3) > situation (1) + individual (2)!
– Inspire + expire = breathing ~ Passion + death = living!
– EST: IST – 10.5 hours
MCC – Marylebone Cricket Club – guardian of the laws/spirit of the game
– Feel sorry for the committed spouse,
Feel sorry for the celibate bachelor,
Feel sorry for the promiscuous players.
How about 33% of each combined to form a whole……!? 😜
29.3.19
– Performance philosophy
“As One: Non-philosophy explained to philosophers”
Self-belonging, self-creation & self-overcoming
Hamann-Jacobi & Felix Ravaisson
– Explanans & explanandum
Petitio principii
Tu quoque
– I am a Non-philosopher
1.4.19
– Net run rate
2.4.19
– Theology + politics = ethics
– I’m an apologist for evil! 😈
– The self-determination of GOD
3.4.19
– Bhuna chicken
4.4.19
– Expressing the intuitive:
Verbal (articulation in speech/writing), artistic (drawing, etc.), performative (body movements, etc.)
– Indian lesbians, having steamy fun 😉
5.4.19
– Gregory Palamas
– Movies:
“A Vigilante”
– TV series:
“Bodyguard”
– festooned
malapropism
Family, friends & neighbors
Ugadi; Gudi padwa; Chaitra Sukhladi
aura
patina
SRSP – spiritual, religious, supernatural & paranormal
Soft swap

THINGS

15.3.19
– My view of Christianity/salvation is orthodox, but I myself am unorthodox.
Unorthodox Christian(ity) is closer to non-Christian(ity) than Christianity.
I believe Christianity is more conservative than liberal. But my faith is more liberal than conservative.
I believe that only a disciple (submit to the authority of, and follow, Jesus Christ, as presented by the Bible & Church) can call him/herself a Christian. But I am not a disciple. although I believe I am still a heretic/radical Christian.
I believe Christianity says that only those who are converted can have assurance of salvation. But, according to me, one doesn’t have to be a Christian in order to be saved. In fact, I am a universalist!
Distinguish:
My view of Christianity
&
My view of life
&
Christianity’s view of life
All 3 are intertwined!
Solan believes that justification is only for converts (?), & sanctification is by faith (passive reception/dependence) alone, just like justification. He also subscribes to the justification-sanctification-glorification view.
I believe that everyone is already justified (& therefore, will be glorified) in Christ, sanctification also involves active commitment/discipline (unlike justification). And sanctification has nothing to do with salvation (eternal life – forgiveness of sins, reconciliation with God, ultimate Christlikeness, etc.) – it is living (present) in the light of (past) justification-glorification (future).
– One could be theologically liberal and morally conservative, or vice-versa
Or, one could be liberal or conservative in both…
– The reformer is more conservative than the progressive, because the former is trying to reclaim the original faith-practice which has been compromised in his/her context, and the latter is trying to innovate the future by using what has been given in the past as raw material.
I am (for more of) the latter.
– Long-distance relationships – a combination of the advantages of being single and being married?
How can the advantages of being single be incorporated into married life?
And how can the advantages of being married be included in the single life?
– Judging the scale that is used to classify entertainment into higher and lower forms
E.g. The inspiration of a romance movie and the titillation of pornography
Don’t both have their respective, rightful places in art/culture/life?
– Optimal proportion ~ 30/70 or 25/75
Extreme/moderate
Single/married
Indulge/discipline
Save/spend
– What do you do when an app you like to use is branded as PUP by your anti-malware program?
– Do you know how to type µ?
– Kabir, Sufi, Bhajans, Hindustani, Carnatic
Worship throwback
CCM (Contemporary Christian Music)
Quick preferences
Black spirituals
– Distinguish:
Pornstars
&
Sex slaves
Porn users
&
Sex addicts
Porn is the male fantasy about women, and rom-coms are the female fantasy about men.
The female fantasy is culturally accepted, even celebrated, but the male fantasy is condemned and repressed…!
– Pleasure < happiness < joy
Is it possible to have pleasure without pain?
Is it possible to have happiness without pleasure?
Is it possible to have joy without happiness?
– Distinguish:
Politics
&
Governance
– True love never dies – are you sure? – are there any exceptions?
This too shall pass – of course, isn’t change the only constant?
“Where there is love, there is life. Forget the risk and take the fall. If it’s meant to be, then it’s worth it all…”
16.3.19
– Trolls, pedophiles and terrorists
– Natural culture
Vs.
Artificial morality
– Demanding that a man be an angel is the sure way to make him a monster!
Distinguish:
Saint
&
Demon
– White supremacy
Vs.
Islamic extremism
Reverse jihad
You pay the bitter consequences of NOT acting against evil!
– Tony soprano – Immanuel Joseph
Christopher ~ Chris Joseph
Tony Blundetto ~ Augustine Sundar/Solan Chelliah
AJ ~ Mahima Joshua
Meadow ~ Praise Evangeline
– “We gods are only masks. Who wears us? Find it out.” – The Invisibles
– Dream:
My mother is sick, with ?generalized fungal infection of skin. She also might be having a heart attack. Seems like she’s dying!
I’m trying to wade through a river with my dad, and almost get drowned…… (Bad feeling)
– Recommendation algorithm
YouTube Kids
Form, substance & function
Is justified belief knowledge? The Gettier problem
IFF (if & only if)
Necessary & sufficient conditions
“Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgment” – Alan Gibbard
Meaning, language & morality
Munchaussen trilemma
Foundherentism
Intuitions ~ clues + Proofs ~ reasons
– Distinguish:
Apologetics
&
Evangelism
17.3.19
– Anirban Dasgupta
18.3.19
– Manohar Parrikar
Christopher Wiley
Social media & politics (elections, terrorism, etc.)
detente
Rogue nuclear power
Archipelago nation
Tiny but strategic
No-confidence motion
Improbable relationship
Scrapping term limits
Yellow jacket protest
Peak pollution
Single-use plastic
The volatility of celebrity
insouciant
– Gregory of Nyssa
Gregory of Naziansus
Gregory the Great
Patrick, the missionary saint
Patrick’s Day
shamrock
Sunday of Orthodoxy
Defeat of iconoclasm
Private conduct & public office
Emissions, plastics, deforestation
subvocalization
– Your rejection of the Messiah >> destructive consequences (of your own making/choice) ~ the divine judgment against you!
This message is brought by the prophet as a second chance (to repent & be forgiven), for those who had rejected GOD before.
At least now, will you heed & turn??
19.3.19
– poseur
Baader-Meinhof Gang
Chaos Magick
bogeyman
Mayan mythology, nanotechnology, Queer Theory
hotwire
20.3.19
– What would a promiscuous lifestyle be like?
Do you know?
I’ve never tried it……
– Alchemy: Shit <–> gold
Share your workflow
tt; ff
The pen as gun, & the gun as pen
Sanitization/domestication
Ontological squeamishness
abjected
Bodily excess
Queer/transgressive/fluid
Sweat, blood, pus, semen, mucous, milk, tears, vomit, diarrhea, saliva, urine, menses, oils, female ejaculate, amniotic fluid……
Wholeness/properness/abstraction/norm-ality
Recorporealize ontology, revivify politics and re-queer epistemology
Mummified in the chair position
Pleasurable rupture & ecstatic porousness
Fertilization instead of productivity
Excremental eros & vivid decomposition
“The female orgasm, which remains perniciously resistant to photorealistic forms of representation…”
Theorizing the lesbian body
Transubstantiation & pornography
“irrumatio”; throating
The gag reflex & retching – nausea & arousal
Visceral vocabulary
dank memes
clairvoyance
mesmerism
Psi
From spiritualism too parapsychology
Scientific magic and magical science
– Movies:
“Campaign 2” – Kazuhiro Soda
Documentary of radical observation
Watched only half, on Mubi
What is it like to be incinerated by a nuclear bomb?! Is it possible to experience it, without actually being destroyed??
Am I ready to vote for independent candidates?
– Why should the personal, philosophical and the pornographic be neatly/tightly separated?
NO!
– Becoming new/different – creating my (future) self, by repeating the same-old practices in the present……!
– Am I a psych(ot)ic?
22.3.19
– Online headshop
Water wheels
– 3 cardinal negative emotions:
1. Anger
2. Grief
3. Fear
Secondary emotions – confusion, frustration & disgust

MISCELLANEOUS

5.3.19
– Real-time database
– All couples considering marriage, do a master health checkup (focusing on sexual/reproductive health – STD, OG, etc.) and exchange results
6.3.19
– “IAF pilot will now be part of Rajasthan school syllabus”
Fucking idiots!!!
(Werner) Herzog on Herzog
Cinematic realities
Style & truth
Representation & presentation
Fictional documentaries
Ecstatic visions
The accountant’s truth
– Malvertising – isn’t all advertising?!
– Subscription:
Mubi
Vs.
Netflix
Vs.
Pornhub
~
God
Vs.
Man
Vs.
Devil 😂🤞
– Maas (Tamil memes) ~ Mass (Catholic worship)
– Salvation genealogy
Eve ~ Mary ~ Church
Abel ~ Jesus ~ sacrament
– Nature: Fire >> ash
Lent: Ash (Ash Wednesday) >> Fire (Easter)
Rekindle the flame, beneath the encasing of ashes……!
– Is a Catholic (celibate) priest allowed to masturbate?
7.3.19
– Why are some tracks unplayable on Spotify, and how to get them?
Try Gaana! 😎
– Fan fiction
rapscallion
Mommy porn
8.3.19
– Since men are more objective/erotic and women are more relational/romantic when it comes to sexuality, this is one of the root causes of misunderstanding and violence.
And one of the most important ways to resolve this difference/conflict is for men to develop their feminine side, and vice versa.
– Sign out from all devices
– Who is Sreelakshmi Arackal?
What does “domai” mean?
– Factualized imagination & docu-fiction
Inverting depth (the false dichotomy of superficial-appearance-false & profound-substance-true)
Sublimation & indulgence – moderate, harmonize & integrate!
Unconscious conditioning
Queer-ing activism
Words – informal, offensive, dated, etc.
faggot
Legacy website
MetArt philosophy
Libido/eros – energy, healing, creativity, spirituality
Future sexualities
Yoni
estrus
phylogeny
Permanent ornaments
Mating counter-strategies
Public humiliation as a penal reality of social norms
Ambivalence & shaming
The need to be desirable
TV series – episode title reference
Powerplay rules (ODI & T20)
– Why is a public scholarly/academic discussion of sex acceptable, but an explicit image is not?!?
– Nerves of steel
Prostitutes (& contemporary pornstars) as “devadasis”
narrativise
Materiality ~ body ~ desire ~ pleasure ~ sex
Sexual anthropologist
Anti-feminist women
Brain games – Divided attention, multi-tasking, impulse control, planning, problem-solving, memory, speed
– Healing isolation, & cultivating community, by resisting obsession with:
1. The cult of work/productivity
2. Private entertainment
3. Resentment against/suspicion of, one’s fellows
9.3.19
– petite maisons
Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Albert Moll
Psychopathia sexualis
– Earth, water, air & fire
Blood, sweat & tears
hierophant
Deep time; dark ecology
– Can an institution/organization be great?
10.3.19
– “Watching” as a genre of porn
GOAT
Pulitzer, Peabody, Emmy, Cannes, Sundance
Fetlife
Dark Net
LovePlus
harbinger
Selfish, but also lonely!
Hacker for hire
Revenge porn
11.3.19
– FOW
Front foot pull
Caomei
Chervil
Astral travel and cyber-avatars
– India could not defend 358 with their so-called world class bowling attack!?!
Was Kohli right in calling this game an eye-opener (for him as captain & his side) or should we just give credit to Australia (especially Turner)?
Captaincy? Fielding (especially wicket-keeping)? Temperament?
Did India believe they had all but won the match, at half-time??
Should India have had 5 specialist bowlers?
Do we have a genuine all-rounder in the side?
DRS, dew, etc. – lame excuses
“This is gonna hurt, but in the right way…” – VK
Ashton Turner Vs. Rishab Pant
Why is Hardik Pandya missing?
“Take it as deep as possible, because anything can happen (toward the end)!” – Handscomb
– சோர்ந்துபோகாமல் நற்கிரியைகளைச் செய்து, மகிமையையும் கனத்தையும் அழியாமையையும் தேடுகிறவர்களுக்கு நித்தியஜீவனை அளிப்பார்.
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
– Romans 2:7
Is this any different from the Spartan mentality (“300”)?
– Always do a trial of any product/service you’ve got. Then do a review & give feedback.
– What do religiosity, patriotism & capitalism have to do with each other?
12.3.19
– scar(r)ed
Myrmidons, Cyphermen & Archons
Twilight zone, outer limits
Andrology
Football away-goals rule
Tamil rock
Social justice, income tax & charitable giving
13.3.19
– Soil & plant ~ Judaism & Christianity ~ Hinduism & Buddhism
(Hinduism > Brahminism)
– GOD exists to help man thrive,
Man exists to help woman thrive,
Woman exists to help the child thrive,
The child is the father of man, and savior of the world!
– Chellam’s experience of contacting & communicating with “spirits/ghosts” in the Parapsychology course
How does this relate to, and affect, my own (skeptical) views??
– Pre-match, mid-match & post-match shows
Meta-ethical quasi-realism
Propositional attitudes
Extended mind
Naturalistic dualism
The skin/skull boundary
– Is(n’t) Jesus the (anti-)Christ?!
– Perpetua & Felicitas
Commonwealth Day & postcolonialism
Forgiveness Sunday
Clean Monday
Confessions of a liar
– Flatter to deceive (Indian middle-order batting) 😥😡
The soft underbelly of the dragon
– RFC – counter-intuitive interpretation – this parable actually means the opposite of what it seems to be saying……!
– Distinguish:
Politics
&
Governance
– Religion – the conservatives Vs. the liberals Vs. The radicals/heretics
Distinguish:
Christ (Perfect)
Christianity (Imperfect)
&
Church (Flawed)
Correct?
– Classify:
1. Those who believe porn is evil, therefore do not watch it.
2. Those who believe that porn is fine, but are not interested.
3. Those who believe that porn is fine, and enjoy it.
4. Those who believe that porn is evil, but are struggling to overcome its temptation.
– Distinguish:
Fame
&
Success
Egoism
&
Ambition
Criticism
&
Vitriol
14.3.19
– “The mind is a good thing to lose every so often” – Mind Field
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