Knowledge Is Ecstatic Union

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 English knowledge derives from Greek gnosis which derives from Sanskrit jnanam. Knowledge is not data.  Data is useful and necessary and never comprises knowledge. Knowledge is ecstatic union of subject and…

Boomers

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 boomers stole their childrens’ lives. The civilian leaders stole our lives. Βασιλεία του Θεού Kingdom of God Update 1: Socialists’ attraction to anti-American strongmen. Update 2: Boomers in senescence: sex.  Update.…

Stability And Differences

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 Looters want stability.  Builders want opportunity. Theobald and Bateson used to point out that the viability of a system is proportional to the steady state of its internal differentials. Both employed…

The Fall

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 Before Jeanne led her Soldiers into battle, she led them into the confessional.  Life is personal before it is social.  A clean heart produces clean results.…

Academe And Ecclesia

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 Academe is ever trying to distinguish or even separate itself from The Church (ecclesia). This is like the brain trying to separate from the heart or the clouds from the ocean.…

Creation

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The Genesis creation stories – there are two of them, back-to-back, declaring divine act in reverse sequence – accurately and literally depict the origin of all worlds and all life through all time,…

Rent-Seeking, Power-Junkie Females

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 How White Educated Female Liberals Are Destroying the Culture Elizabeth Naham There is so very much that should be neither legal nor illegal, but simply unthinkable.  I think when laws proliferate…

What I Know

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, My natural father was an atheist trying to be a Christian and a queer trying to be a husband. My natural mother was a narcissist trying to be a Christian and a nymphomaniac trying to be a…

On Democracy And Totalitarianism

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, A crucial point is this: that democracy (majority rule) is properly restrained by human values and rights, else majority is “might makes right,” which is totalitarianism, not democracy.  This is the question at play across the globe today. For this reason the…

Light Paralysis (“Polio”)

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 Bulbar was rare even then, usually it was the spinal kind, which also was given the iron lung, and bulbar was usually lethal, spinal not usually. A few had both and…

A Crusade Is Called

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT If the enemy were simply named, attacked and defeated, there would be no dragnet. Total surveillance is an impulse of reality ignorers. A forest is visible from a mountain-side and from a tree-side.…

Judaism, Christianity And Islam

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 Judaism, which is proto-Christianity, starts in Kashmir going to Samaria and Jerusalem via Aram and Egypt. Christianity starts in Tibet and Greece going to Rome and Moscow via Jerusalem and The…

The Bane Of Religion

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. The bane of religion is the impulse to think it demands something, anything, prescribes or proscribes something, anything. Religion is the gift of freedom to those mired in the endless cycle of knowing good and evil, a “knowledge” which is a curse. Religion…

War And Love

The constants of war are the constants of life because, as Heraclitus observes, “War is the father of all things.”  The mother of all things, I suppose, is love.  So there you have it, war and love, the universal constants, appearing as emotion, chance and reason, von Clausewitz’s Trinity. Update 1: On 20JUN15 Scott Johnson…

Freedom I

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The drive for religious freedom is stronger than the drives for economic, political and intellectual freedom.  It is stronger because it is more fundamental.  It lies closest to the heart. The drive for religious freedom produced the United States of America.  It…

Thought For The Day

This “ruling class” is right to hate and dissemble Christianity. Christianity came to crucify its salient characteristic: snobbery, prudery. Brethren, hang on to that which is good, and fulfill your mission.   AMDG