And Today They Build … Hospitals?! … Bike Trails?!

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 Inside of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the Architect who planned— Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of…

Tillich On God, Culture, Time And Space

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 The God of time is the God of history.  This means, first of all, that He is the God who acts in history towards a final goal.  History has a direction,…

Imperial? Dictator? Lawless?

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 I think not. Lawless?  Well, yes, though hardly shock and awe variety.  Imperious?  Dictatorial?  Definitely captious, average pretentious, especially for the latter, but a pretty poor showing at it, as told…

Thanks To Belvedere

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, My good, hard-working friend, Bob Belvedere, has posted a Thought For The Day by yours truly: Really, as is known, multiculturalism is verbal cover fabricated for itself by an effete corps of rent-seeking, power-junkie intellectual snobs, to coin a phrase or two. They are not…

Low And High View Of Man

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Socialism — both varieties, Communist and Fascist — is an excuse for a low view of man.  It appeals to scholars, who are promptly exterminated by their power-lusting students. The Church has a high view of man.  She appeals to warriors, who…

Grand National Strategic Objective: Colonize And Culture-Splice

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 Theme I believe in world peace.  I believe in America.  I believe in Russia and India as state-brothers of America.  I believe the only way to earn world peace today is…

He Was A Franciscan

He was a Franciscan: a bird to him was not a winged creature, it was an hilarious bolt of colored sonority lightening forward on a mission for the world to relish and marvel with. AMDG

Strategy

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 Do not oppose someone until you can defeat them. Merely opposing someone strengthens them … and weakens you. Fight when you can win, and win every fight. Update 1: On 27 January 2015,…

Sage Advice From Belvedere

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. By my friend Bob Belvedere: Wake Up!  And Here. AMDG

Bonhoeffer: Religionsloses Christentum (Religionless Christianity)

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…

Education And The Church

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 At the moment, the American system of compulsory (K-12) and coerced/beguiled (13+) education is receiving the furry eyeball at an extraordinary degree of public visibility.   About time.  Here are some…

Visual Discussion I

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. If a Freedom Fighter doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one. If a Messianic Collectivist doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed. If a Freedom Fighter is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat. If a Messianic Collectivist is a vegetarian, he…

The Female Genie

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 From the ethers: While walking on a beach during one of his many vacations, 0 found a bottle on the sand and picked it up. Suddenly, a female genie rose from…

Grounds For Revolution

Admin law being beyond political review – will of people, in whom sovereign authority resides, everywhere and always – is grounds for revolution. AMDG

Who Owns Revenge?

A fleeting incident remarked by Professor William A. Jacobson, creator of Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion, and commented by many illustrates an ontological reality and a moral fact expressed in the tactical wisdom of St. Paul in the words of Romans 12:18-21. From the comments: It appears to this observer that most comments here run counter to the posture commended…