STUFF

22.1.19
– moozadell
Self-imposed slavery
Fruitful catastrophe
Deities ~ demons ~ spirits ~ forces ~ elements
Dreams ~ myths ~ art ~ religion
Collective fantasies
Unconscious knowledges
The body as representational platform
God only knows why!
Mystery ~ imagination ~ belief ~ ritual – in between chaos/unknown and order/known
Social/historical philosophy
Common law and the body politic
Leadership principles ~ divine attributes
Panic >> freeze >> fight or flee response
chattel
Pimps & pushers
looker
Boooyah!
photojournalist
asepticism
Swan song
– Noam Chomsky ~ Jordan Peterson
Vs.
Michel Foucault ~ Slavoj Zizek
– The person as a legion/horde!
Being a stranger to oneself
– Distinguish:
Illiterate
&
Stupid
– How long can one die?!
– Can a fundamentalist be an intellectual, and vice-versa?
– “Learning/growth = theory + experience + practice.
In the case of your career – doing a course in Education (theory) + teaching/guiding (experience) + research in Education (practice)” >> Chellam
23.1.19
– Body-memory
– Negative identity
Distinguish void & nothingness
Good & bad dualism
The uncounted or non-representable – all that is not!
Meontology
The other being & the other-than-being
Null set
Pure proper name
Univocity, equivocity & unicity
Auto-declaration; self-reference
Almost-being & be-coming
The Deleuzian virtual & Badiouian void
Grounding process
Infinities
ouns
gunrest
untonsured
prelate
jowl
imbroglio
downbeat
funk
25.1.19
– Sensory deprivation as entheogen
Sun-glare in ODI during India tour of NZ
Tor browser
– Movies:
“Pity” (Greek)
I can watch stuff like this only on Mubi! No need for attending international film festivals anymore 😎
Happy only when miserable!
Am I like that??
But why is he like that? Can this quest actually help him to improve his life/self/world?
Is the ending a fantasy, or……?
Is it okay to be abnormal? To what extent should we just accept without trying to change things?
Wouldn’t it be even more pathetic to be full of self-pity and no one else to share it with?
“Upgrade”
Found it in the top 50 movies of 2018 – a Mubi editors’ list!
Guilty pleasure/cheap thrill 😜
A mashup of Venom & Ex Machina – better than the former but not as good as the latter
Compare with “Pity”! Was that one also a revenge film??
How is justice different from revenge? And what does a victim do when the law fails to deliver?
Yes! VR/dream/afterlife is less painful than actual life. But, does it mean that it’s also “better”? Just try to permanently live in the altered state, then you will see the hell within that too!
26.1.19
– I read one chapter from James Joyce’s Ulysses and it was excruciatingly boring, so I just moved on to another novel!
(Maybe I was also depressed during that read, and looking for a quick fix……?)
– sub-personalities
The noble aim
Canonical motivations and emotions
Phenomenology and cosmology
Abstraction ~ idealization ~ projection
Consciousness ~ awareness + intelligence + articulation
Being ~ reality; Experience ~ existence
Co-creators
– Would the Big Bang count as a Badiouian event?
30.1.19
– Dead rubber
1.2.19
– Try Linux!?
4.2.19
– The Christian as pastor as confessor
Baptism ~ anointing ~ ordination
– Animal culture – jealousy, competition, hierarchy, etc. are NOT exclusive to humans!
It seems that, contrary to our intuition, these facts are NOT dependent on anthropic self-consciousness……
– linkify
5.2.19
– Movies:
“Original Sin”
WOW! One of my favorites?
Jolie looks perfect for the part! She is the forbidden fruit and the sinister serpent in-one.
Banderas can act as a hapless & blind fool too!
Compare with Dostoevsky’s “Idiot” – the Christ figure
The glory and folly of love
Can love be separated from lust/desire & need/obsession?
Self-forgetfulness can be as destructive as self-absorption
Gender role-reversals – awesome!
“Widows”
Compare with “Original Sin” – intimacy, betrayal & redemption – this one is more subversive!
Never mistake feminine vulnerability for weakness! I have seen firsthand the tenacity of the female spirit (E.g. Chellam)
In the end, she (wife/mother) was stronger than him (husband/father) – she never gave up on “them”.
The ambient grief along with the audacious action was gripping indeed!
The male is more individualistic and the female is more relational. Therefore, when it comes to things like marital fidelity, she is unbeatable. The male is more of a solo survivor.
Friendship, in the midst of adultery, political corruption and racial violence
Female bonding – the company of God-forsaken humans form a community of mutual support, in the aftermath of the death of the Messiah!
– Today, I let a stranger, alleging to be a poor, needy man into the house. And bought the suit fabric he was selling.
I later discovered that I had spent double the price of what I got.
He could have even threatened & robbed us (my mother-in-law was also present)!
Although I keep talking/thinking about how I have become egoistic and nihilistic, I still remain a sympathetic idiot! 😖
Why??
Is there still a remnant of the old Christian ethic of “entertaining angels” in me?
Is it okay to get cheated when you want to help the other??
– Compare:
Interpretation of ancient myths
&
Dream analysis
What is the episteme of such contemporary endeavors?
How is that related to the “original context” of these 2 areas?
– Proper verse
Meme fest
Younger twin
6.2.19
– There is a place/level at which physics & metaphysics start merging!
– Distinguish:
Rhythm day (Saturdays)
&
Random day (Tuesdays)
Rhythm – flexible discipline
Random – moderated entertainment
7.2.19
– YouTube Red
#letsdoeit
9.2.19
– Tension ~ conflict
Balance ~ harmony
15.2.19
– Put a sock in it
bough
16.2.19
– “When God set forth to create the universe, his Thought encompassed all the worlds at once.…All were created in a single instant.”
– Zohar
Could this be compared to the quantum multiverse coming out of the Big Bang?!
The eternal moment
True creation is bringing something out of nothing – a timeless/spiritual/divine act – of which you & me are also capable!
It is indeed amazing that the insights of religious mystics is a kind of meta/ultra-science……
– farrier
Conservation status
Subfossil cave specimen
Fossilization
Pay-per-view (PPV) event of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
headwind
Toxic masculinity
Face-mask for bowlers?!
17.2.19
– bae
18.2.19
– Scribd snapshots
– Movies:
Bumblebee
Watched it in 4DX @ PVR (no IMAX or 3D) – one of my worst movie experiences!
The Transformer as the heroine’s fantasy.
Throwing herself into a mission that is larger than oneself (“saving the world”) rescues her out of the rut of grief & resentment……
மௌன ராகம்
Valentine’s Day movie with Chellam – couldn’t get a good HD copy to download.
Deserves to be a classic!
Can be melodramatic & sentimental, but still authentic & gripping.
The tension between being true to oneself and preserving relational integrity
Truth-speaking + forgiveness = peace
Manchester by the Sea
OMG! One of the most poignant & pungent films I’ve seen…
Tragedy as therapy for depression!
I can identify with the hero’s self-loathing & rage.
The conversation between him & the ex-wife towards the end is heart-breaking & beautiful!
Sometimes, responding to the outstretched hand of another troubled sheep beside you is the only thing that can help heal your own wounds……
– The Duke University chapel website is accessible via mobile data pack, but not through broadband/WiFi.
How come?! 🤪
– Vasant Panchami
Sunday of Zaccheus
Hieromartyr Charalambus
tangerine
Sunday of the Publican & the Pharisee
Preparing for Lent
Eastern Catholic
Trisagion (thrice holy)
Confessor
– India Vs. Pakistan
Distinguish country & government
20.2.19
– Law, Prophets & Psalms ~ Theory, practice & experience
All integrated into epic (poetic narrative)!
– The Ego & Its Own ~ The Individual & Its Property ~ The Unique & Its Self-creation
– Track-album-artist ~ day-stage-person
21.2.19
– JSTOR Daily
– Movies:
Compliance
OMG!!! Grueling, infuriating and prophetic……
Who is Craig Zobel?
I don’t think I’m an exception to any of the victimized characters
It’s very easy to say, “Why didn’t you just say No!?” & “How stupid and gullible can you be?!” when watching this from outside!
Compare such deadly pranks/scams with (so-called) harmless stuff like “candid camera”, “just for laughs”, etc.
Persons reduced to cogs-in-the-machine – required watching especially for those who are part of huge organizations (like Christ University).
A nightmare that could well be part of a Situationist propaganda
“The banality of evil”?
“I just (try to) do my job” “I’ll do whatever is required (of me)”

RANDOM

12.1.19
– Why should I apologize for not being hospitable when no one is apologizing for not being contemplative??
– amicus
eponymous
Kosher; Halal
– Is “Gully Boy” just a rip-off from “8 Mile”?
13.1.19
– Movies:
“Ugly” (Hindi)
Adult preoccupation & negligence –> death of the child (“We could’ve saved her……!”)
Worldly concerns/desires –> loss of spiritual potential/vitality
Can we be both lustful and loving??
Awareness film – the pandemic of missing/abducted/trafficked children in India!
Why??
14.1.19
– Get sermon/liturgy/mass (video/audio) for every special day in the Christian calendar (for Year A, B & C)
– Ancient Christians as eye-witnesses of the Word, servants of the Kingdom and friends/lovers of GOD
Disruptions, detours and delays in the process of discernment
– marquee
– The Transfiguration account in Mark’s Gospel makes up for the absence of the virgin birth account as an evidence of Jesus’s divinity…
15.1.19
– Makara Sankranti – Hinduism & agriculture
– Haven’t you died before?
– Distinguish:
Having a child
&
Becoming a father
– The Sunday in between Christmas & New Year/Epiphany
17.1.19
– Income tax – financial year (FY) and assessment year (AY)
– TV series:
“Sharp Objects”
Very slow burn
Somewhere in between “Patrick Melrose” & “True Detective”, but not as good as either, because it tries to be a little of both.
The gorgeous women (& girls) make it watchable
Is it possible to non-judgmentally portray something pathological, and yet avoid condoning or glorifying it??
Feminine seriosity
Prestige programs
– What is that one thing you love to do, which motivates you to get out of bed every morning?
– superannuation
sadhvi
Amicus curiae
Angel tax exemption
Vinesh Phogat
19.1.19
– State of nature >> social contract >> artistic freedom!
Science as pseudo-religion and philosophy as pseudo-art
Liberation through torture
The transgressive imagination and criminal scheming
mastiff
atavism
Moral crimes and natural evils
The reader as victim
Perverse reason; anti-logic
Normalization ~ disambiguation
Official violence < personal cruelty
Subversive ~ ungrammatical
buggery
bestiality
– Books:
“Persepolis” – Marjane Satrapi
Classic graphic novel
1: The Story of a Childhood
2: The Story of a Return
WOW! Got into the mind-heart of a girl
East meets West coming-of-age
Europe is not paradise, neither is Iran hell
A depressed, stoned, mediocre nihilist……….
Suggested it to Chellam as reading assignment for her Developmental Psychology course
Unless you intentionally & deeply link your personal life to the larger context, you will be stunted!
– Horse-trading in the legislature – fucking buffoons!
– Seasonal festivals & national holidays
20.1.19
– Books:
“Open Marriage”
Read with Chellam
The infinitely expanding circle
Vs.
The fixed fence
I would recommend it to all couples (married/dating)
Still remains relevant, irrespective of your cultural background
Not a Bible/manual, but an essential stimulation/perspective
Movies:
“Room With a View”
Compare with “Room in Rome” 😉
Who is E. M. Forster?
Seeing love through the lens of sex, and vice versa
Ego – heroine; Superego – mother/aunt; Id – hero
Did Chellam’s parents ask, “What is this new voice/force we are seeing in you?!”?
“Martyrs”
OMG!!!
Compare with early Christian witnesses
Compare with the film “Jean d’Arc”
There are 2 kinds of horror films – the cheap jump scares and the deeply disturbing – this belongs to the latter!
Child abuse, homosexuality in friendship, and organized/religious/dogmatic groups
The philosophy of the Marquis de Sade – would the cult qualify as Sadean heroes? Why not?
Distinguish:
Victims
&
Martytrs
Can extreme pleasure also be revelatory??
Now I know why this is knows by some as one of the greatest horror films of the 21st century……
revanchism
“Glass”
Great idea and message, but the execution could have been much better
Not one of Night Shyamalan’s best
He’s better with thriller-drama than action
Supernatural is just a euphemism for very abnormal!
3 different classifications of humans:
Good & evil (Dunn); Broken & spoilt (Crumb); Gifted & ordinary (Glass)
The little people, who need to be at the top of a corporate ladder in order to feel big, hate the true giants among us.
I guess I am more like Glass – watched it with an injured foot 😉
I must become more & more discerning, assertive and expressive of who I uniquely am! More extreme, more unique, more powerful!
The disclaimer at the beginning/end of movies, about it being fictional, and any resemblance to real life persons/events being unintentional/coincidental, may not be appropriate for such works, which take comics this seriously (a la Jordan Peterson)……
– mantelpiece
asinine
zoetrope
amenity
“The Paris Review” interviews
21.1.19
– Introit, antiphon & gradual
Virgin ~ martyr
Suggested/recommended content
Emotional bullying
Attention bias
Social threat cues
Intrusive thoughts
Loneliness & addiction
Naturopathy
Oishii – Delicious Moment
Cultural competence
Diversity initiatives
Alternative & complementary approaches
Medicine, psychology & spirituality
Hermetic tradition
Modern magic
Imaginal techniques
Phenomenology of the sacred
Self-regulation
Promotive & preventive measures

BROWSING

5.1.19
– Comics:
300
– I got blissed-out – no weed – lucid dreaming? – yesterday……!
6.1.19
– Poke (Fb)
😉
– Movies:
“Disobedience”
I disagree with the critics who found the ending lame.
Death of God theology – entire film bookended by the demise of the father-figure
Deontological to existential ethics
Does the lover know the beloved better than she knows herself?!
Awesome threesome hug!
Esti had to become a fully independent & responsible adult (by becoming a single parent), before she could join Ronit as an equal partner……
The evolution of the (male) Rabbi because of his confrontation of the feminine (women) in his life
Esti ~ Salome; Ronit ~ I
7.1.19
– What a pleasure & delight to watch the analysis & commentary, during an Indian victory in a cricket Test series down under!
😇
How can I celebrate this historic moment??
Kohli & Shastri press conference 😋🤤
Pant & Jadeja decimating the Australian attack was delicious……
– Batting time
See it or fold
– Pornhub Exclusive
From hosting great content to creating unique content
8.1.19
– Citizenship Amendment Bill
– Mutual mentoring
– Balm of Gilead
&
Balm in Gilead
Mahalia Jackson
Negro spirituals
9.1.19
– asymptotic
Web app
Post-exilic restoration
– Verses of the day:
1 Jn. 5:14 + Isa. 55:6-7 + Mat. 5:6
Whenever you desire justice, or need to be forgiven, just seek, call & ask the LORD, and you will never be disappointed!
11.1.19
– Ice-fishing village

WASSUP

15.12.18
– Magnificat @ Christ University:
Enjoyed! Few outstanding performances – Prologue to Gospel of John, etc.
Ushering in the festive season in the right spirit…? (I usually make it a point to attend a choral service during Advent)
The first Christmas was a stark contrast to such gaudy spectacles!
“Shall I play for you, on my drum?” – ONLY (for/before/to) you!
The real epiphanies occur in secret/silence and they are spontaneous/mysterious
– Baudelaire – if you wanna touch the sky, then keep digging the earth, until you hit rock bottom. Then, when the bottom gives way, you will reach the point where the sky and earth meet!
Sade – aesthetics as ethics! Compare with the friendship/fellowship/brotherhood of the sadists in “I Saw the Devil”. The unnaturalness, and therefore, the unimportance, of coherence/rationality/integrity in the Sadean ethic. Power/control – the ultimate pleasure?? Distinguish victim and novice. Distinguish pleasure and happiness.
– rakes
Jawan turned terrorist
– Great works of architecture always bedazzle me, because of the sheer human effort, expertise, coordination, ambition and ingenuity involved.
These monuments are the exact opposite of the self-creating individual……!
– Is self-esteem essential or antithetical to the truly abundant life?
I was a somebody who has now intentionally become a nobody.
But why??
To see if there is anything other/more to one’s life than what I see around me……
False truths
Vs.
True lies
– You are in the system, because you believe that you gain more than you lose by that choice.
I am outside the system, because I believe that I gain more than I lose by this choice.
But the majority will agree with you, not me.
So what? That doesn’t say anything about who is really better off……!
– For me, not to suffer is happiness
How can I break the false dichotomy of pleasure and pain??
17.12.18
– Movies:
“Daughters of the Dust”
Black, female, poor filmmaker……
Past ~ roots; future ~ wings
Past Vs. Future
Vs.
Past as present
What is (my) identity??
Who you are, who you wanna be and who you ought to be
Who are your people? What is your place? Where and when do you come from?
“Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse”
IMAX 3D!!! 🙂
It’s a kids movie, but can be enjoyed by adults too
Compare with Jordan Peterson on the Christ
You don’t have a choice ~ leap of faith ~ save the world
Tie your shoe-laces!
Superpowers – blessing or curse??
The terror(s) of growing up/old – perpetual adolescence
Multiverse ~ after/before-life ~ eternity
Salvation via difference/repetition/death
You’re not alone in being alone……!
18.12.18
– Movies:
“Zorros Bar Mizwa”
Schooling/education/parenting/socialization as indoctrination
Bat mitzva
Just give (your) children the tools to their own independence, along with all the other cultural shapings
Am I ready to be a parent? Do I want to be a parent? There are those who are ready but do not want it, and those that are not ready but want it. Which of these would be better at it?
Contemporary faith = ancient revelation/scripture + historical tradition/ancestral events + current contextual forces/personal factors
Film as document and document as film
Docu-fiction
Jews with Spanish roots living in Germany
The pseudo-spirituality of social religion and the pseudo-religion of isolated spirituality
What we need is deliberate innovation for the future as opposed to a simplistic accommodation of the past to the present
– Jordan Peterson’s idea of law/reality/God may be too static/rigid…?
What if the relation between individual desire and the nature of life/world is more dialogical than hierarchical?
19.12.18
– The more integrated I am with my own shadow self, the better I will be able to relate to others…?
– Christian theology as ideology
Vs.
Christian theology as critical theory
– On the lam
The relation of form, & spirit, to truth
Culminating work
Subtle interanimation
Reclaim & revive
Critical history
non-interventionist
Encounter & decision
Modernizing the Reformation and reforming modernity
The dialectic of differentiation and unification
Mutual scrutiny
Complex critical and constructive position
Crisis and creativity
Academic habits
Inter-religious ecumenism
Pure promise
DjVu
– Distinguish:
Renewal
&
Innovation
Ressourcement
Aggiornamento
– Theoretical knowledge
Vs.
Practical morality
– “Behold your GOD!”
WOW
The tabernacle, Adam & Eve, the Law, Nature, Christ, Church, you & me……….
20.12.18
– CFNM
nettle
Secret society ~ theater stage
Distinguish cruelty & injustice
Justine Vs. Juliette
Worthless intuitions
The deceptive heart
Moral convictions ~ social manners
Justice as artifact
From pseudo-civilization to super-civilization
Tacit consent to the pre-(or post-)contract position
Institution & acquisition
Blinded by the iron logic of civility
The commonwealth as the artificial state of nature
The Sodality & Silling
Virtuous fool
Public control & private enjoyment
– Is reaching very high levels of pleasure a genuine achievement?
Does it have any value in this socio-economic world?
– Movies:
First Man
Karen Armstrong & JFK
Spiritual astronaut
Was he depressed?? In love with his dead daughter AND bored/disgusted with domestic life……
Outer space ~ inner abyss ~ multiverse ~ eternity
21.12.18
– Compare:
Nietzsche’s nihilism
&
Hitler’s Nazism
– I am/create/imagine/become my own context!
– Restriction & transgression ~ work & pleasure
Excrement ~ excitement
Boredom, erection & exhaustion
Crime, cruelty, debauchery and pain
Anal rape
phallocracy
Happy struggle Vs. abject surrender
turd
Scatman (“I’m the…..!”)
Self-negating arrangement
Totally unexpected moves
Ecstatic style
Education ~ liberation ~ subversion
The professional whore as untouchable mother goddess
Dream, interpretation, performance & discharge
– Become your own narrator!
– Let order/word and chaos/drives be equals (or mutual slaves/masters, alternately), in the duel/dialogue/dance/play of life!
– Jesus, Santa & Grinch
– Can one be(come) a full adult without sex &/or reproduction?
– Distinguish:
Inter-subjectivity (pluralism)
&
Objectivity (dogmatism)
I’m a qualified/weak relativist
– Rank according to your centre(s) of gravity:
Emotion/feeling; Intellect/analyzing; Will/doing
2-1-3 – contemplative thinker
Or maybe I’m 3-1-2 – (emotionally) repressed (sexual) fucker; relationally retarded headman
– Levels:
Quantum/universe – chaos (over order)
Our galaxy/earth – order (over chaos)
Society/culture – order (over chaos)
Person/subconscious – chaos (over order)
Chiasma/sandwich pattern!
– Christmas – what is the meaning/significance/myth/moral of the virgin birth?
– Reality/Nature/Life:
Chaotic & destructive
Vs.
Survival of the fittest
Vs.
Blessed are the poor in spirit
Sade, Darwin & Jesus……
– The logic of capitalism – spend more, earn more!
– Opposition grand alliance
Boxing Day
Yule
noel
Society – spectacle & surveillance
– The Nativity – maybe I should repent of my view of the/my baby as a rampant parasite/unnecessary burden…?
The child as the promise of new life – absolute vulnerability & awesome potential compactly bundled together!
But I still DON’T want to be a father……
– WHY do I feel angry/upset when /he/she/they……?? 😡😳😞
How do I deal with these difficult emotions?! 🤪
Mostly, whenever I have opened my wounds to others, they have only made it even worse.
So I should learn to help myself and deal with my own issues.
Can I never love and be loved??
Try not to get upset about being/becoming upset! Relax & empathize. Reflect, understand & respond.
I am not an economically productive adult male, and I am also not a proper home-maker.
And I don’t want to reproduce.
I also despise (almost all) the glories and norms of this world.
The hatred is mutual ⚔️
Perfect recipe for misery and tragedy……
Buck up, Joe! 😶😐
– Do you like the person(s) you’re living with?
Do you even like yourself?
Do you like this world?
No love without like.
Or is it the other way around (Christian)?
– The easy/simple/nice folks
The greatest wickedness is not passionate murder, it is mindless conformity/abject resignation – the “banality of evil”!
22.12.18
– “Christian Christmas”
Carnatic Christmas
“Sarige” (Kannada)
D-girl
Made guy
Neapolitan
Omerta
– Clarifications:
– Distinguish “I am upset with you” & “You have wronged me/You are offensive”
It’s more about me than you.
– I don’t blame or accuse you… But that doesn’t change how I feel about certain things. So I need to learn to deal with it.
– The reasons for my anger/hurt may be that I am jealous/possessive/insecure/lonely/needy; I don’t like people who overwork, or who I see as not having a rich/deep personal/inner life; I generally do not respect/value the workplace (especially large organizations); I am severely critical of the education system; I am bitter/resentful against this society, etc.
I don’t really know…
– There are certain unique problems when the woman goes out to work/earn and the guy stays at home.
This is because this arrangement is going against the grain of usual nature & culture.
– It’s very easy to scold the other person whenever one is upset with him/her. I hate that!
I don’t want to be what I despise.
– I don’t think I’ve had a high quality intimate relationship with a woman (mother, sister, friend, etc.) before……
And generally, I NEVER share my pain with others (male or female) to get comfort and support.
PEACE ✌🏽
– I’d rather be sad than shallow
– Integration:
Experience ~ past
Practice ~ present
Theory ~ future
Experience informing practice
+
Practice informing experience
+
Experience informing theory
+
Practice informing theory
+
Theory informing practice
+
Theory informing experience
– “Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.” – Bob Marley
Having equal respect & care for oneself & the other is ideal.
Is one who is incapable of any sacrifice & adjustment truly free?
– “Many much-learned men have no intelligence.” – Democritus
Distinguish education & maturity
Distinguish training & experience
Distinguish knowledge & wisdom
From many/much to rare/precious!
– sortie
pageant
tabluex
Worker’s Music Association
Balangiga Bells; war trophies
repatriate; extradite
Yellow Vests Movement
minibar, sideboard, cellaret
“Be the business”
Aureus, denarius, solidus
Chico Mendes Vs. Darly Alves da Silva
Council >> canon
southpaw
lashings, oodles
conscript, inductee
coinage, neologism
abaxial
compendious
Theory of value
Biohacking
– “One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.” – Oscar Wilde
Sounds like psychoanalytic theory…?
But what about individual freedom & responsibility?
I’m more interested in your future trajectory!
25.12.18
– What could be more barren than a virgin’s womb?!
– My greatest enemy is ennui/depression/despair/frustration/resentment/resignation/callousness/indifference/apathy
– The link between faith-hope-love (root) and love-joy-peace (fruit) is LOVE!
– MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas!
VERY merry Christmas! 😎🎁✨
What is Xmas?
– Movies:
KGF (Chapter 1)
WOW!!! What dialogue and what action…
Detailed & profound Christology – truly a Christmas film!
John Dominic Crossan – “The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus” – so the whole film is actually a fable/legend/myth narrated by the story-teller, one among the slaves in KGF!
Conversion ~ slave >> rebel
RC theology – Mary, mother of GOD
Real salvation/messianic without an actual savior/Messiah (Derrida) – the power of inspiration/faith/hope!
Divine ~ fictional/imaginative/aspirational
The Cross – the lamb led to the slaughter becomes the surprise victor……
26.12.18
– The cigarette as incense stick! 🤪
31.12.18
– Praise & Worship music – for the New Year!
– Believe in beginnings,
And be a beginning!
– Virgin mother ~ the pregnant void
Chastity ~ barrenness
Our emptiness + Grace = fecundity!
Mary, the perfect disciple and therefore our mother/mentor too
Hail Mary >> Magnificat
– “See the face of GOD watching you.” – Anthony de Mello
– Pub theology
1.1.19
– Critical heritage
2.1.18
– BTS
THC Vs. CBD
– New Year 2019 dinner – Chianti @ Vega City mall – fettuccine Lamb bolognese + virgin piña colada! 😇
– Azar, LivU
3.1.19
– mistletoe
rapporteur
– 27-30.12.18 – Valparai trip with Chellam, Chris, Solan, Francis-Jenitha & Abel-Lydia
– Movies:
“Mandy”
Masculinity & negative emotions – converting weak (sadness & fear) into strong (anger-violence & lust-greed)
Trippy!
Some things are meant to be just experienced, not understood……
Midnight movie
B-movie
“Pulp Tarkovsky”
Declaring war on GOD & fate, in the name of love!
“Venom”
Guilty pleasures
Compare with the comics I read
The underdog always wins!?
Who/what is your best friend??