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 Responding to this: This is half-true: the war in Vietnam was being won on the ground even as it was being lost at the peace table and in the U.S. Congress.…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Whence this multiculturalism obsession? It is drugs, both legal (prozac, pain killers, alcohol, in prepared foods, etc.) and illegal (marijuana, cocaine, etc.). During Vietnam, China was flooding at least the West Coast — that I know of — with illegal drugs, and…
King George VI Radio Broadcast, 24 May 1940: The decisive struggle is now upon us. I am going to speak plainly to you in this hour of trial. I know you would not have me do otherwise. Let no one be mistaken. It is no mere territorial conquest that our enemies are seeking. It is…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, A West Pointer writes: General Westmoreland just passed on. I remember him as the exceptional Commander of the 101st Airborne Division, the Army’s first rate general reserve at Fort Campbell; as the hard working, visionary MACV commander in Vietnam when I first…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Instead of the term terrorists, I tend to prefer the term thugs. Better still, Caliphists. Our Army also has been using the second characterization. Case in point: Our son, in Iraq as an independent contractor, says the evil bastards — a…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, A close friend recently removed themselves from the membership roles of the United Church of Christ. I responded with several notes over a period of days, as follows: First: Thanks, and I a UCC ordinand and ECUSA member! Well, at least I…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, I have seen the article on Kunstler’s The Long Emergency in Rolling Stone and recognized projections from Futurists in the 1970s, when I was thusly involved. However, the rural/feudal scenario was forecast — not by all but by many — for late…
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 OP-ED COLUMNIST All Cultures Are Not Equal By DAVID BROOKS August 10, 2005 The New York Times Let’s say you are an 18-year-old kid with a really big brain. You’re trying…
Of Shakespeare, of course: Sonnet 104 To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still now. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers’ pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn’d In process of the seasons have…
Tony Blair today: Coming to Britain is not a right. And even when people have come here, staying here carries with it a duty. That duty is to share and support the values that sustain the British way of life. The standard is: Coming to [country] is not a right. And even when people have…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Question: It seems to me that politics surrounding/related to terrorism (for lack of a better phrase on my part) is the impetus behind the Muslim ecumenical movement. Do you know if there was a political reason for the ecumenical movement in the US,…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. By ANTHONY MITCHELL, Associated Press Writer Tue Jun 21, 8:37 PM ET ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A 12-year-old girl who was abducted and beaten by men trying to force her into a marriage was found being guarded by three lions who apparently had…
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 This is great. The nerve this decision touched is Boston Tea Party strength. There is a doctrine (true, standard-forming learning) in theology that the virtues and the civil laws aiming to…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Matter is a gross aspect of consciousness and consciousness is one name for the prius, which is also named truth and bliss. The distinction between spiritual and material is artificial, a result of the epistemological phenomenon called delusion. Reality is non-dual (non-tri-al, etc.).…
The English-speaking nations will not stand for being attacked and will destroy anyone who has effrontery to do that, no matter how long it takes or how hard to do. Other nations can be attacked with relative impunity — Spain, Israel, Indonesia, Arabs and even to some extent French and Germans, who will prevail in…
For over 50 years, caring people world-wide have focused on facets of a single question: What is next, what is the plan, what are the outcomes, what is the evangelium, the peace-conferring message to the world which we have? The answer to these and all other facets of this single question is: the Golden Section (Divine…
