DATELINE: The White House

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 24 December 2013 2200 Hours Local Time Rough Transcript of Remarks by POTUS, For Immediate Release Good evening.  As you may have heard, two hours ago I experienced a glitch in…

The Job Of …..

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. The job of men is to keep things organized. The job of women is to keep things moving. The job of queers is to keep things falling. Update I: Thanks to Bob Belvedere for his fine blog The Camp Of The Saints and his use of the content…

De-Industrialize Education And Piety

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 On I-5 Southbound Tuesday, passing through Tacoma, WA bound for a West Point-related meeting and observing the mass industrialization of practically everything in sight, a thought occurred from seeming nowhere: “this…

Robinson Jeffers

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Hurt Hawks I The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder, The wing trails like a banner in defeat, No more to use the sky forever but live with famine And pain a few days: cat nor coyote Will shorten…

Hommage à

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Valmiki — Longfellow — Jeffers Parmenides — Heraclitus — Pythagoras Jesus the Christ — Paul — Jerome Augustine — Benedict and Scholastica — Francis and Clare Adi Shankara — Teresa — Palestrina Bach — Kant — Goethe Hegel — Vivekananda — Leo…

What Is Happening To The Middle East?

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 Update 16JAN17 Something is afoot in MENA, a new alignment is forming, comprising Israel, Saud, Egypt and Jordan, that I can see so far. Not sure how it builds out, but I…

Hopelessness

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. John Hinderaker remarks on “hopelessness.” My thought: Hooah! Good! Now they will get serious. Now the intelligent will do leadership.  Like Martel at Tours, Sobieski at Vienna.  Curious constant of human impulses: they don’t clarify until they hit the wall of hopelessness, purify in…

The Nature And Origin Of Theology

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 Theology is a discussion of experience.  It is a work of describing experience.  It is work.  Hard work.  And it describes a definite set of experience: being whole, which means able…

Alice, Bear, Donkey, Snake

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. From  the 1980s, a tale from Blue Form Alice was skipping along through the forest one day when she came upon a great bear.  The bear was chasing a donkey around a tree in a very playful manner when the two of them…

Blue Form

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. From the 1980s, For The Golden Section / Divine Proportion AMDG

Grazie Belvedere!

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 Bob Belvedere operates a fine blog named The Camp Of The Saints.  He has been fighting the good fight for many years – skillfully, voluntarily, assiduously and without surcease.  Bob’s blog…

Barrycade

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. What we have here is a failure to communicate.  You are not allowed to be Americans, to be yourself.  You have to be punished and made into something better.  I won’t tell you what that is, but if you make it, I’ll let…

Answering The Moslem Brotherhood Creed

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 Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allah is beyond the…

A Repeated Phenomenon

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Bad things happen because problem solvers’ attention to a genuine and simple problem that begs real solution is allowed, by the same problem solvers, to be deflected and deformed by hell-raisers self-appointed or incited to the purpose.  The problem, always simple, goes…

Paulus Johannes Tillich

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 My theological preceptor is Paulus Johannes Tillich.  My father was Tillich’s student at The Union Theological Seminary in New York City.  I matriculated at Union two months before Paulus departed this…