Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Robert E. Lee’s mother wrote at length once to her sister, concluding with the observation that her letter was long because she did not have time to be brief. I feel […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Among his collected letters is one from St. Jerome to St. Eustochium, daughter of St. Paula, St. Jerome’s patroness and collaborator at monastery building and administration in Bethlehem. This letter, number […]
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, I have discussed the nature and effects of ideology before now. Because the recent USA national election is — primarily, I think — a case study in that nature and its effects, a little AAR on the […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Sacred scriptures are subjected to direct pollution and perverse readings during their eons-long service. Direct pollution occurs as emendation, excision, and elaboration (revising, removing, and attaching). All sacred scriptures acquire pollution through […]
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The Barth/Bultmann cartoon isn’t meant to be funny, I think, it’s meant to illustrate a lack of common notation, language, betwen two supposed theologians. The cartoon is more like a subtle mock of both men for their […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie, 1272 – 23 August 1305. National Hero of Scotland, Freedom’s Guiding Light, the Flower of Scotland and inspiration for The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April 1320. […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT By Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The thing that keeps coming back to me, is what is Christianity, and indeed what is Christ for us today? The time when men could be told everything […]
In 1992, Mary and I selected a set of coloring book pictures she had made for our offspring and named the collection Breviary For A Mountain Stream. The link goes to a 7MB zip file which contains the pictures to color in PDF format (print and color them, go ahead, it’s fun!) plus descriptions and […]
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Yesterday Dr. Sanity discussed the problem of evil in an unusual way — not for her but for professional and lay persons generally. She acknowledges that evil is a concomitant of existence. I offered a series of comments, first referring to a writer […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Alert: In May of 2015, I became aware of indications (and here, here, and here) that Liberation Theology is a disinformation active measure of the KGB … and, one presumes, its continuation under the […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In 1965, Harvey Cox published The Secular City. The volume was notorious for attacking the “old” as “old” and promoting the “new” as “new.” Cox stirred waves in many quarters, including the editorial office […]
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. 1- Today, the nation-states are the forms of the religions whose cultures produced them. Today, the secular authorities are warring religions. Who can intervene this time, as the secular authorities did in the 17th Century to bring peace […]
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, I am not familiar with optimization theory directly — and do not have the tech math background to follow it in detail — but I am grasping enough from your indications to be able to make a […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT When we see that everything is attached to the Ground, we do not ask for evidence because we see it. We are adwaitins, non-dualists. When we see that some things are attached to […]
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, God is the sun, soil and water. Creation is the root. Spirit is the trunk. Intellect is the branches. Mind is the sap. Body is the leaf. Life is the fruit. Death is the seed. Truth is […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A Christian Scientist and I were discussing the sentence, “Reason is the record of our connectivity with God.” A conflation of my side of the conversation follows. Reason is a word […]
